A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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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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We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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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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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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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 only certainty is death.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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The 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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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