“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
Were a man to spend only one day in Sicily and ask, "What must one see?" I would answer him without hesitation,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“It was one of those bitter mornings when the whole of nature is shiny, brittle, and hard, like crystal. The trees, decked… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings!… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“How fathomless the mystery of the Unseen is! We cannot plumb its depths with our feeble senses - with eyes which cannot… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters… — 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
