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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

Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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Black Face Feeling Poet Soul Writing
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
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
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
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
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
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Age Immortal Kiss Lips Man Offering Travel
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
…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

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