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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.

Guy de Maupassant

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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
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
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
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
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
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible

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