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Guy de Maupassant

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
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
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
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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Anand Thakur
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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

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