Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant, 1850 - 1893
Portrait by Felix Nadar, 1888
Guy de Maupassant quotes:
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- Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. permalink
Guy de Maupassant - "Suicides" - Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. permalink
Guy de Maupassant - "My Uncle Sosthenes" - 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. permalink
Guy de Maupassant - Sur l'eau (On Water, 1888) - The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. permalink
Guy de Maupassant - 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. permalink
Guy de Maupassant - The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. permalink
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. permalink
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. permalink
Guy de Maupassant - There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort. permalink
Guy de Maupassant - 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. permalink
Guy de Maupassant - "The Love of Long Ago" - We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs ... of our barbarous ancestors. permalink
Guy de Maupassant - Sur l'eau (On Water, 1888) - Whatever you want to say, there is only one noun to express it, one verb to animate it and one adjective to qualify it. permalink
Guy de Maupassant - 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. permalink
Guy de Maupassant - "Sundays of a Bourgeois"
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