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

Guy de Maupassant

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
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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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
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
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
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
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
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Betrayal Finding Ignorance Obstacle Secret
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
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
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
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
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
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
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

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