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More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
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.
