You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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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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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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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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