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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Guy de Maupassant

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
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
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
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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
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
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
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
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War

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