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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.

Guy de Maupassant

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
…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 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
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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Astonishment Death Government People Right
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
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
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
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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

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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