The only certainty is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
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You must render: never report.
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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.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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.
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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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