"I told myself 'Everything is a being! The……" — Guy de Maupassant
"I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal, since it is born, produces a movement, and is again transformed, in order to die. So the fearful mind that believes in incorporeal beings is not wrong. What are they?"
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Guy de Maupassant
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70 Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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