I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTYou must render: never report.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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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.
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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