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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

Guy de Maupassant

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 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
…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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Algebra Art Dreams Music Poet Strange
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
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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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Captain Government Responsibility
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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Admire Beautiful Blood Eyes Love Man Soul Time
We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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Eyes Memories Object Ourselves People
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

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