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More Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
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.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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.
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
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.
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
