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More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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.
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.
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.
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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 lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
