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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

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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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
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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
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
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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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
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
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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…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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love

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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