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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.

Guy de Maupassant

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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Algebra Art Dreams Music Poet Strange
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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother 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

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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