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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

Guy de Maupassant

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
…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
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
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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Genius Greatness Health Inferior Madness Touch
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
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
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time

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