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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

Guy de Maupassant

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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Art Boredom Conversation Fascinate Interest
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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
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
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
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 only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
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
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Existence Life Memories Ourselves Perfection Universe
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

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