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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

Guy de Maupassant

The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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Bed Born Death Life
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
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
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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Art Boredom Conversation Fascinate Interest
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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Captain Government Responsibility
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother 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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Algebra Art Dreams Music Poet Strange
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Earth Existence Time
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

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