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

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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
…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
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Breathe Death Drink Live Oneself Sleep
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Difficult Genius Simplicity Woman Wonderful
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
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
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
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time

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