It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOur memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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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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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.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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You must render: never report.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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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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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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The only certainty is death.
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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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