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GUY DE MAUPASSANTOne sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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The only certainty is death.
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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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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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