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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.

Guy de Maupassant

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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Astonishment Death Government People Right
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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Avoid Development Each Other Eyes
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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Genius Greatness Health Inferior Madness Touch
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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Anand Thakur
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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English Flavor Food
Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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Admire Beautiful Blood Eyes Love Man Soul Time

In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.

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