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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.
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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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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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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One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
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I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?
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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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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 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.
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A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!
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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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Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.
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She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.
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And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.
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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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