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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

Guy de Maupassant

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
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
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
…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
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
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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
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
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

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