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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

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
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
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
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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 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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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 only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World

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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