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Guy de Maupassant Quotes: You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
         

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.


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You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.



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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.



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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.



A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.



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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food



It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.



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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.



Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.



Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

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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I can think of a few ways I wouldn't mind you taking control." He dropped his voice a few octaves, making his already deep voice even more delicious.



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