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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

Guy de Maupassant

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
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Breathe Death Drink Live Oneself Sleep
…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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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Black Face Feeling Poet Soul Writing
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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.

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