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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.
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.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
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.
