Best Quotes by Guy de Maupassant (Top 10)
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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...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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Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.
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If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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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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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, 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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one
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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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