"Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of……" — Guy de Maupassant
"Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror."
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Guy de Maupassant
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70 Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
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Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines
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Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy…
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We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists…
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You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give…
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You must render: never report.
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Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl,…
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The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so
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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.'…
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To lie about a far country is easy
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More Apprehension Quotes
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Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
— Honore de Balzac
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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
— Henri Bergson
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom…
— Donald Cargill
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
— Florence Nightingale
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
— Alexander Pope
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What is offered to man's apprehension in any specific revelation of Christ is the living God himself.
— Karl Barth
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is…
— Susan Sontag
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My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power…
— William Wordsworth
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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
— Edmund Burke
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Things of which there is sight, hearing, apprehension, these I prefer.
— Heraclitus
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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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