Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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The only certainty is death.
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