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Love always has its price, come whence it may.

Guy de Maupassant

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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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Body Breathe Love Myself Night Passionate Patience
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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Death Fight Known Life Live Protection
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile
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
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
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight

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