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

Guy de Maupassant

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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Better Happiness Management Marriage
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Alcohol King Wine
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror

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