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 MAUPASSANTBroad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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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.
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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