Love always has its price, come whence it may.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTIt is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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…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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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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