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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
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
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
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Difficult Genius Simplicity Woman Wonderful
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
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
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Earth Existence Time
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
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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Age Immortal Kiss Lips Man Offering Travel
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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Dangerous Intelligence People Solitude Talk Thinking Void Work
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
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
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic

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