A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTA sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLegitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTIt is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOur memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTEverything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTEvery government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI 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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTChampagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTA lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe only certainty is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTYou’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTSolitude 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
GUY DE MAUPASSANTYou’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
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