I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“<...> out of love of symmetry, just as people put two vases above a fireplace.” — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood,… — Guy De Maupassant Copy Share Image
“But I no longer had a taste for anything, a wish for anything, a love for anybody, a desire for anything whatever,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Yes, this is the only good thing in life: love! To hold a woman you love in your arms! That is the… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“She was pretty and, even more, she was smart, and she had a divine figure according to all accounts. He fell in… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Those men, those of former times, had soul and eyes that in no way resemble ours, and in their veins, along with… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“A terrible event had broken him down. He had fallen madly in love with a young girl and married her in a… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“This was the first living creature I had ever loved passionately, because he returned my affection. My love for the animal was,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“‟Whatever we may do or attempt, despite the embrace and transports of love, the hunger of the lips, we are always alone.… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Why does one love? How queer it is to see only one being in the world, to have only one thought in… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“The love between man and woman is a voluntary pact in which the one who falls short is only guilty of perfidy,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“By Jove, it's great! Walk along the streets on some spring morning. The little women, daintily tripping along, seem to blossom out… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“He stared fixedly at the opposite bank where an angler was fishing, his line perfectly still. All of a sudden the man… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“It is love that is sacred," she said." Listen, child, to an old woman who has seen three generations, and who has… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“There were some children round him playing in the dust on the paths. They had long fair hair, and with very earnest… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Because it is useless, and I tell them so at once. If you had confessed your fears to me sooner, I would… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Because it is useless, and I tell them so at once. If you had confessed your fears to me sooner, I would have reassured… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share
“Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out:… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share
There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share
“There were some children round him playing in the dust on the paths. They had long fair hair, and with very earnest faces and… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share
“She was simple, not being able to adorn herself, but she was unhappy, as one out of her class; for women belong to no… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share
“How fathomless the mystery of the Unseen is! We cannot plumb its depths with our feeble senses - with eyes which cannot see the… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share
“‟Whatever we may do or attempt, despite the embrace and transports of love, the hunger of the lips, we are always alone. I have… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share
She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share
“For some years he had felt weighing on him the burden of loneliness which sometimes overwhelms old bachelors. He had been strong, active and… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share
