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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?

Guy de Maupassant

The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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Bed Born Death Life
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
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

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