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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.
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.
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.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
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.
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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.
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
