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Guy de Maupassant

One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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 only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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Avoid Development Each Other Eyes
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

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