Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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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 past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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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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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a 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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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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