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

Guy de Maupassant

You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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Dangerous Intelligence People Solitude Talk Thinking Void Work
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Age Immortal Kiss Lips Man Offering Travel
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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

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