In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTHistory, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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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.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
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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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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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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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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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