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.
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.
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
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.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
