You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTYou’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTConversation. 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.
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 MAUPASSANTThe past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThose 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 MAUPASSANTI 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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTHistory, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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 MAUPASSANTPatriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTBroad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTA lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTEverything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOf all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
GUY DE MAUPASSANTA sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe 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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