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More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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.
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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.
You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
