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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
Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant
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One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
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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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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of 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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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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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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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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Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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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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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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To lie about a far country is easy
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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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Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
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I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
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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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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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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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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.
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