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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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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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
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

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