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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
Guy de Maupassant
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Guy de Maupassant
Age: 42 †
Born: 1850
Born: August 5
Died: 1893
Died: July 6
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We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.
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There 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.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.' 'Make me sad.' 'Make me dream.' 'Make me laugh.' 'Make me shiver.' 'Make me weep.' 'Make me think.'
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Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Since 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.
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