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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

Guy de Maupassant

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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Genius Greatness Health Inferior Madness Touch
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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Eyes Memories Object Ourselves People
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Earth Existence Time
One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Death Illusion Time
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself

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