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More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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.
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.
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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.
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.
