I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTA sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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You must render: never report.
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Love 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.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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