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More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
