The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
GUY DE MAUPASSANTWe breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOur memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTEvery government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTTo lie about a far country is easy.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTYou’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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 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 MAUPASSANTThe great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTA lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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 MAUPASSANTIn the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTYou must render: never report.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOne sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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