It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThere is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
-
-
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
To lie about a far country is easy.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
The only certainty is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT