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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Guy de Maupassant

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
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
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
…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
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
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
The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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English Flavor Food
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile

…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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