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More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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.
To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a short word but it contains everything. Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe the air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. Love is not a word; it is a wordless state indicated by four letters.
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.
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
