Guy de Maupassant

The only certainty is death.

— Guy de Maupassant

To lie about a far country is easy

— Guy de Maupassant

“Egyedül a halál bizonyos.”

— Guy de Maupassant

You must render: never report.

— Guy de Maupassant

“Get black on white.”

— Guy de Maupassant

In fact living is dying.

— Guy de Maupassant

“Plăcerea va trebui jerfită folosului.”

— Guy de Maupassant

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

— Guy de Maupassant

“<...> out of love of symmetry, just as people put two vases above a fireplace.”

— Guy de Maupassant

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

— Guy de Maupassant

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

— Guy de Maupassant

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

— Guy de Maupassant

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

— Guy de Maupassant

“What you love too violently finishes by killing you.”

— Guy de Maupassant

A legal kiss is never as good as stolen one.

— Guy De Maupassant

“Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [ On Water ]”

— Guy de Maupassant

“A proč vůbec se chovat urážlivě k někomu, na kom jsme úplně závislí? To by nebylo vůbec hrdinství, nýbrž jen nerozvážná smělost.”

— Guy de Maupassant

“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

“Envy, bitter envy, was permeating his soul drop by drop, like a poison that tainted all his pleasures and made his life…

— Guy de Maupassant

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

— Guy de Maupassant

“How strange life is, how fickle! How little is needed for one to be ruined or saved!”

— Guy de Maupassant

“Some people are Freethinkers from sheer stupidity. My Uncle Sosthenes was one of these. Some people are often religious for the same…

— Guy de Maupassant

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right…

— Guy de Maupassant

A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it…

— Guy de Maupassant

“But this pleasure was not unalloyed with pain, and it seemed as if the universal joy of the awakening world could now…

— Guy de Maupassant

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

“This notary was a little man, completely round, round in every part. His head looked like a ball nailed onto another ball,…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Well, then I will go on, however painful it may be to me to recall those terrible memories. What temptations! What trials!…

— Guy de Maupassant

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

“Her husband was not malicious, but he did bully, though without anger or animosity, as do petty tyrants who think that giving…

— Guy de Maupassant

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles,…

— Guy de Maupassant

“I’m much richer than I appear and that, thanks to well advised investments, I’ve managed to amass a small fortune. They’ve casually…

— Guy de Maupassant

“For a number of years he had lived, eaten, laughed, loved, hoped, like everyone else. And for him it was over, over…

— Guy de Maupassant

I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life,…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Everything I see reminds me that in a few days I shall no longer see it... It's horrible... I shall see nothing…

— Guy de Maupassant

“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

“How can they possibly know such things? No member of this family reads novels, except for mass-market bestsellers, clichéd thrillers with contrived…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Get married, my friend, you don't know what it means to live alone, at my age. Nowadays feeling alone fills me with…

— Guy de Maupassant

“It was now autumn, and I made up my mind to make, before winter set in, an excursion across Normandy, a country…

— Guy de Maupassant

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

— Guy de Maupassant