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More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
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.
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.
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.
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.
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
