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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

Guy de Maupassant

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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Betrayal Finding Ignorance Obstacle Secret
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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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Eyes Memories Object Ourselves People
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Food Myself Passion Respect
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

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