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More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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.
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
