We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTWe live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
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 MAUPASSANTI have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTBreathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTHistory, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe only certainty is death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTSince 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.
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 MAUPASSANTThe English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTAbstinence is the worst form of perversion.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOf all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThere is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLegitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
GUY DE MAUPASSANTAnguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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