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More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
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.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
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.
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.
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.
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
