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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThere 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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTHistory, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLove 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 MAUPASSANTWhatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTBroad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTAnguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTTravel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
GUY DE MAUPASSANTSolitude 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
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLegitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTWe live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTWords 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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