The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTYou’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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The only certainty is death.
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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’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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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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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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