Guy de Maupassant

“For the first time, Duroy thought of all that was hidden in her past and began to speculate. Obviously she'd already had…

— Guy de Maupassant

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

— Guy de Maupassant

“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

“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

“She was, in fact, one of those people of exalted principles; one of those opinionated puritans, of which England produces so many;…

— Guy de Maupassant

“It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.”

— Guy de Maupassant

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

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

“Olyan mélységes és olyan szomorú azoknak a szobáknak a csöndje, ahol egyedül él az ember. Nemcsak a testet, a lelket is körülfogja…

— Guy de Maupassant

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

— Guy de Maupassant

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

— Guy de Maupassant

“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

“Of what subtle substance is the Fatherland then made, that it too can travel, emigrating with us in agreement with our vagrant…

— 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

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

“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

“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

Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

— Guy de Maupassant

War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the…

— 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

“The father was long and thin, with a red face framed in white whiskers, and looking like a living sandwich, a piece…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Certainly solitude is dangerous for active minds. We require around us men who can think and talk. When we are alone for…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Dar o pastra in amintire, in zilele urmatoare, era mai mult decat o amintire, era un soi de sentiment al prezentei ireale…

— Guy de Maupassant

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Charming, charming,' the lawyer said at intervals.”

— Guy de Maupassant