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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

You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
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
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
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 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
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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
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
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
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
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 lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
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

…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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