Guy de Maupassant on doubt
Guy de Maupassant53 quotes“Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.”
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Guy de MaupassantGuy 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 MaupassantGuy 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.
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Guy de MaupassantGuy de Maupassant I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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Bethany HamiltonBethany Hamilton When in doubt, wear red.
Bill BlassBill Blass Tonight’s show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn’t – haven’t made my mind up yet.
Bill BaileyBill Bailey Ithink Isaid’All menare Jews excepttheydon’t know it.’I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it’s an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
Bernard MalamudBernard Malamud How quickly a person in pain whom you can’t help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.
Beth Richardson GutcheonBeth Richardson Gutcheon A map says to you, ‘Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.’ It says, ‘I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.
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