More Quotes by 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 short word but it contains everything. Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe the air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us. Love is not a word; it is a wordless state indicated by four letters.
You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
