Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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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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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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