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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.

Guy de Maupassant

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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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
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 great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
…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
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
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
We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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Eyes Memories Object Ourselves People
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself

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