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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
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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile
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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
…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
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

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