Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
-
-
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
To lie about a far country is easy.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Military men are the scourges of the world.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT -
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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