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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

Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
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
…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 simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Difficult Genius Simplicity Woman Wonderful
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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
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
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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Body Breathe Love Myself Night Passionate Patience
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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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…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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