The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTAbstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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 MAUPASSANTOf all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLove is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTAnguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOur memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTYou’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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 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 MAUPASSANT…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTEverything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTTo 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 MAUPASSANTThe simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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