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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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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
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A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?
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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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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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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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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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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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