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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

Guy de Maupassant

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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
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
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
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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Black Face Feeling Poet Soul Writing
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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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
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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