Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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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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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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…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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To lie about a far country is easy.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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