A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Anand Thakur
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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 said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThere is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLove 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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTLegitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTIt is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTAnguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTWhatever 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.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTWe live always under the weight of the old and odious customs… of our barbarous ancestors.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTWe are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTOne sometimes weeps over one’s illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThere is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTI entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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.
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