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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

Guy de Maupassant

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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Art Boredom Conversation Fascinate Interest
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
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
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
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
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
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
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Brother Love
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
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
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
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

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