black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Guy de Maupassant

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Genius Greatness Health Inferior Madness Touch
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Love Price Time
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Ancestor Custom Live Ourselves Weight
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Better Happiness Management Marriage
Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Admire Beautiful Blood Eyes Love Man Soul Time
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Anguish Desire Enemy Man
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Alcohol King Wine
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Leaving Literature Myself
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Attraction Death Future Past Present
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Inspirational Life Live Worth
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
The only certainty is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Certain Death
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Anand Thakur
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

Bed Born Death Life
Military men are the scourges of the world.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT

Man World

…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Guy de Maupassant Quotes