You must render: never report.
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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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The only certainty is death.
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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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