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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing
— Guy De Maupassant
We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges; we hear the subtle shifts of rhythm in the beat of a blackening heart.
— Emmanuelle De Maupassant
Several sailors, sheltered behind the curved bottoms of their boats, were watching this battle of the sky and the sea.
— Guy De Maupassant
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.
— Guy De Maupassant
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
— Guy De Maupassant
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.[My Uncle Sosthenes] — Guy De Maupassant
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
— Guy De Maupassant
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
— Guy De Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
— Guy De Maupassant
In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
— Guy De Maupassant
There is no joy greater than the triumph of living.
— Emmanuelle De Maupassant
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
— Guy De Maupassant
I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more.
— Guy De Maupassant
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
— Guy De Maupassant
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
— Guy De Maupassant
Listen,listen with your eyes,
and your lips.
Listen with your skin,
and your blood.
Can you hear us,
at the edges? — Emmanuelle De Maupassant
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
— Guy De Maupassant
Crook your finger; they'll come closer.
Pull the covers tighter to your chin;
in beside you they'll creep. — Emmanuelle De Maupassant
But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor?
— Guy De Maupassant
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
— Guy De Maupassant
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs ... of our barbarous ancestors.
— Guy De Maupassant
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
— Guy De Maupassant
Then, one by one, they went away, for night was falling on the storm, wrapping in shadows the raging ocean and all the battling elements.
— Guy De Maupassant
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
— Guy De Maupassant
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
— Louis L'Amour
Institutionalised love always looks down on her more liberal sister
— Guy De Maupassant
I should add that there are undoubtedly charming Englishmen; I have often met them. But they are rarely our fellow-guests at hotels.
— Guy De Maupassant
Drink the sun's warmth and the moon's icy glitter, and taste that which the dead and the yet-to-be-born cannot: the potency of this world.
— Emmanuelle De Maupassant
What you love too violently finishes by killing you.
— Guy De Maupassant
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
— Guy De Maupassant
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
— Guy De Maupassant
They had moved closer to one another to watch the dying moments of the day, this beautiful bright May day.
— Guy De Maupassant
We love our mother unknowingly, and only realize how deep-rooted that love is at the ultimate separation.
— Guy De Maupassant
Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the ultimate in human happiness.
— Guy De Maupassant
It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.
— Guy De Maupassant
Philippe-Auguste was an ugly child, with uncombed hair and dirt all over him, and the face of a cretin.
— Guy De Maupassant
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.
— Guy De Maupassant
It is not difficult to pass for being learned. The secret is not to betray your ignorance.
— Guy De Maupassant
Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.
— Guy De Maupassant
Champagne ... the wine of kings, the king of wines
— Guy De Maupassant
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
— Guy De Maupassant
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
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
— Guy De Maupassant
He was a fat little man with short arms, short legs, a short neck, short nose, short everything in fact.
— Guy De Maupassant
Put black on white.
— Guy De Maupassant
After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think.
— Guy De Maupassant
You must render: never report.
— Guy De Maupassant
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
— Guy De Maupassant
I hope you realize that you really hit it off with the ladies? You must cultivate that. It could take you far.
— Guy De Maupassant
Death need not be sad, it should be a matter of indifference.
— Guy De Maupassant
I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?
— Guy De Maupassant
The only certainty is death.
— Guy De Maupassant
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
— Guy De Maupassant
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
— Guy De Maupassant
When we are young, our mornings are triumphant!" Then
— Guy De Maupassant
You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
— Guy De Maupassant
She stayed there, in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, on a chair, without a fire, without a thought.
— Guy De Maupassant
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
— Guy De Maupassant
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
— Guy De Maupassant
Every authentically loved being is a kind of god.
— Guy De Maupassant
The dead dog had come more than a hundred miles to find its master.[Mademoiselle Cocotte] — Guy De Maupassant
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
— Guy De Maupassant
Charming, charming,' the lawyer said at intervals.
— Guy De Maupassant
In fact living is dying.
— Guy De Maupassant
Nature loves death: she will not punish it.
— Guy De Maupassant
To lie about a far country is easy
— Guy De Maupassant
The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
— Guy De Maupassant
One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
— Guy De Maupassant
What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire?
— Guy De Maupassant
Her name was Marroca, probably her maiden name, and she pronounced it as though it had fifteen r's in it.
— Guy De Maupassant
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
— Guy De Maupassant
< ... > out of love of symmetry, just as people put two vases above a fireplace.
— Guy De Maupassant
Military men are the scourges of the world.
— Guy De Maupassant
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
— Guy De Maupassant
I think I have already told you that there are certain things which it is not necessary to discuss, and this is one of them.
— Guy De Maupassant
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
— Guy De Maupassant
The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so
— Guy De Maupassant
Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.[On Water] — Guy De Maupassant
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
— Guy De Maupassant
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.[As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study] — Guy De Maupassant
