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

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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Genius Greatness Health Inferior Madness Touch
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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Astonishment Death Government People Right
The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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English Flavor Food
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
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
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 past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War

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