More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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.
Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.
