You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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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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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.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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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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Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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 essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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