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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

One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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
You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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Death Fight Known Life Live Protection
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
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
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
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
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
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 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
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
…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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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

…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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