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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.'
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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One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal, since it is born, produces a movement, and is again transformed, in order to die. So the fearful mind that believes in incorporeal beings is not wrong. What are they?
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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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To lie about a far country is easy
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