You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTHistory, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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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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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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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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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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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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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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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
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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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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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