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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
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
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
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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Black Face Feeling Poet Soul Writing
The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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English Flavor Food
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
…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 past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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 only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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Avoid Development Each Other Eyes
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself

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