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Maupassant QUOTES

  • There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

  • Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

  • It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

  • A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.



  • The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.

  • The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

  • Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

  • The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

  • It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

  • We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs … of our barbarous ancestors.

  • Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.


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