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More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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.
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.
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
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.
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
