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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTChampagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
-
-
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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 -
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
The 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 MAUPASSANT -
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Those 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 MAUPASSANT -
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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT