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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Guy de Maupassant

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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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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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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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You must render: never report.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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