It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTHistory, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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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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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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The only certainty is death.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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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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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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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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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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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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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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The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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