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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

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
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
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
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
You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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Death Fight Known Life Live Protection
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
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
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
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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Astonishment Death Government People Right

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