Quotes by Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

A human being – what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!

Memories

Mirrors

World

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

Kissing

Stolen

A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!

Boys

Dream

Men

And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.

Hands

Heart

Lying

Champagne… the wine of kings, the king of wines

Champagne

Kings

Wine

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

Art

Bored

Touching

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Government

Peace

War

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

History

Old Lady

Unreliable

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

Meteors

Thunderbolts

I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.

Eye

Fall

Sleep

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Air

Ancestor

Art

Beautiful

Bed

Bitterness

Black

Bored

Born

Boys

Breathe

Brother

Champagne

Country

Crafts

Dark

Despise

Dream

Dresses

Ears

Earth

Easy

Eggs

Ends

Enemy

Eye

Fall

Fear

Feelings

Fifty

Food

Good Things

Good Things In Life

Government

Hands

Heart

History

Ignorance

Illusion

Imagination

Kings

Kissing

Liars

Life Is

Long

Love

Love Always

Lying

May

Mean

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Quotes by Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!

And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.

Champagne… the wine of kings, the king of wines

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

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