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

Guy de Maupassant

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 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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
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
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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Bed Born Death Life
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
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
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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Difficult Genius Simplicity Woman Wonderful
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Existence Life Memories Ourselves Perfection Universe
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

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