Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTA lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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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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The only certainty is death.
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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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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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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with their blood, flowed something that has disappeared: love and admiration for the Beautiful.
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You must render: never report.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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