You must render: never report.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTWe live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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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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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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The only certainty is death.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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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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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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