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Guy de Maupassant

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
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
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
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
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
…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
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
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
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
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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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