Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
More Guy de Maupassant Quotes
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One sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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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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A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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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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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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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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You’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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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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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
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