“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
There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. — 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
She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“He seemed to have established in his mind an affinity between the two great passions of his life – pale ale and… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. — 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
“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
“How strange life is, how fickle! How little is needed for one to be ruined or saved!” — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“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 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
You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. — 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
“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
