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More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
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.
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
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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.
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
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 past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
