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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Guy de Maupassant

…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
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Goodness Life Love
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
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
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
Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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Admire Beautiful Blood Eyes Love Man Soul Time
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
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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Doubt Fake Possible
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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Anand Thakur
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
The only certainty is death.
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Certain Death
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
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
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
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
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
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
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Breathe Death Drink Live Oneself Sleep
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
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
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying

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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