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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Guy de Maupassant

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
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
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
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
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
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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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

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