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Guy de Maupassant

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 sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Age Immortal Kiss Lips Man Offering Travel
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
…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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
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
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
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
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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Anand Thakur
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
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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 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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
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
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
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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
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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