More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
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.
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
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.
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
