Guy de Maupassant Quotes

We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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Anand Thakur
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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Anand Thakur
The 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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Betrayal Finding Ignorance Obstacle Secret
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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Boredom Essence Female Life Shadow Smile
Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
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Captain Government Responsibility
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Algebra Art Dreams Music Poet Strange
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Earth Existence Time
You must render: never report.
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Report Yourself
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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Approach Artist Eyes Greatness Heart Love Precious Rare
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.
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Body Consumption Sick Thinking
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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English Flavor Food
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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Death Fight Known Life Live Protection
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time
I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing.
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Happiness Let Go Myself
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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Deep Fear Man Panic
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
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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Avoid Development Each Other Eyes
Whatever 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.
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Adjective Expression Movement Oneself Word
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
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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Body Breathe Love Myself Night Passionate Patience
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
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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Bed Born Death Life

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