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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

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
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
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
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
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
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
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love

…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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