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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

You must - do you hear me, young man? - you must work more than you are doing! — Gustave Flaubert

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

Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life hateful. — Guy De Maupassant

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. — Guy De Maupassant