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

Guy de Maupassant

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
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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Avoid Development Each Other Eyes
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
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
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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Captain Government Responsibility
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
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
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
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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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