More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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.
