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More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a short word but it contains everything. Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe the air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. Love is not a word; it is a wordless state indicated by four letters.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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.
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.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
