Guy de MaupassantA lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.371Politics
Guy de MaupassantMilitary men are the scourges of the world. ✨ On the Water. Short story by Guy de Maupassant, 1888.372Hope
Guy de Maupassant...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.341Death
Guy de MaupassantA human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a micr… ▶331HumanityLifePolitics
Guy de MaupassantEverything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.365Sadness
Guy de MaupassantOur memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. ✨ Guy de Maupassant (2015). Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Sh… ▶355LifeReading
Guy de MaupassantIn fact living is dying.333DeathLifeTruth
Guy de MaupassantChampagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines367Reflection
Guy de MaupassantWe live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors. ✨ On the Water. Short story by Guy de Maupassant, 1888.357Humanity
Guy de MaupassantI said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago? ✨ Guy De Maupassant (2012). The Horla, p.11, Melville House324Time
Guy de MaupassantThe simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.379Sadness
Guy de MaupassantThe only certainty is death.369Death
Guy de MaupassantGreat minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness. 337ReflectionThought
Guy de MaupassantOne sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.337DeathTime
Guy de MaupassantThe essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.337Life
Guy de MaupassantBroad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror. ✨ Guy de Maupassant (1989). The dark side of Guy de Maupassant305Time
Guy de MaupassantIf I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never e… ▶294LifeTime
Guy de MaupassantThe kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.294Death
Guy de MaupassantYou'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.316Philosophy
Guy de MaupassantSince governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments. ✨ On the Water. S… ▶294DeathHumanityPolitics
Guy de MaupassantIt is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.295HumanityLove
Guy de MaupassantShe was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even m… ▶252Politics
Guy de MaupassantThe great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.275Humanity
Guy de MaupassantYou must render: never report.231Truth
Guy de MaupassantWords dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.297Reading
Guy de MaupassantI told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phen… ▶275LifeTime
Guy de Maupassantbreathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die. ✨ Guy de Maupassant (1968). Bel-Ami287DeathTruth
Guy de MaupassantThere is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bough… ▶277LifeLove
Guy de MaupassantThe past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. ✨ Guy de Maupassant (2007). The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, p.468, Wildside Press LLC201DeathHopeTime
Guy de MaupassantWe breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your de… ▶278DeathLifeLove
