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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Duroy, who felt light hearted that evening, said with a smile: "You are gloomy to-day, dear master." The poet replied: "I am… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity. — 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 see the… — 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. I have… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
