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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing
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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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
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She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
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Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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