Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOur memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTHistory, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOne sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTAbstinence is the worst form of perversion.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTWhatever 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 MAUPASSANTTo 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 MAUPASSANTThe great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe 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 MAUPASSANTIt is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThere is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTA sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTTo lie about a far country is easy.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe only certainty is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTIn the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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