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• One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

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  Bitterness, Sometimes, Illusion

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• The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

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  Liars, Lying, Skills

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• Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

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  Government, People, Politics

  "Sobre el agua". Relato corto de Guy de Maupassant, 1888.

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• I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

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  Meteors, Thunderbolts

  Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James”, p.4383, e-artnow

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• Las grandes mentes sanas nunca son consideradas genios, mientras que este sublime calificativo se prodiga a cerebros a menudo inferiores pero ligeramente tocados por la locura.

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  Sano, Sublime, Cerebro

  Guy de Maupassant (2015). "Cuentos reunidos de Guy de Maupassant: El collar + El trozo de cuerda + Boule de Suif + Mademoiselle Fifi + Pierrot + Dos amigos + La Maison Tellier + Fantasmas y mucho más: De uno de los más grandes escritores franceses, ampliamente considerado como el 'Padre del cuento', que influyó en W. Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Anton Chéjov y Henry James", p.1050, e-artnow

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• Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

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  Paz, Guerra, Gobierno

  "Sobre el agua". Relato corto de Guy de Maupassant, 1888.

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• ...Un arte extraño, la música, la más poética y precisa de todas las artes, vaga como un sueño y precisa como el álgebra.

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  Sueño, Arte, Extraño

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• respirar, dormir, beber, comer, trabajar, soñar, todo lo que hacemos es morir. vivir, de hecho, es morir.

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  Sueño, Beber, Dormir

  Guy de Maupassant (1968). "Bel-Ami"

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• Sólo hay una cosa buena en la vida, y es el amor. ¡Y cómo lo malinterpretáis! ¡Cómo lo estropeáis! Lo tratáis como algo solemne, como un sacramento, o como algo que hay que comprar, como un vestido.

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  Cosas de la vida, Vestidos, Cosas buenas

  Guy de Maupassant (2015). "Cuentos completos de Maupassant: Obras de Maupassant", p.981, 谷月社.

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• It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

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  People, Unhappy, Unhappy Marriage

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• Amo la noche apasionadamente... La amo con todos mis sentidos: Amo verla, amo respirarla, amo abrir mis oídos a su silencio, amo que todo mi cuerpo sea acariciado por su negrura.

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  Noche, Silencio, Oídos

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• If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.

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  Tomorrow, Moments, Hours

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• We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.

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  Memories, Eye, People

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• Were a man to spend only one day in Sicily and ask, "What must one see?" I would answer him without hesitation, "Taormina." It is only a landscape, but a landscape where you find everything on earth that seems made to seduce the eyes, the mind and the imagination.

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  Eye, Men, Imagination

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• History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

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  History, Old Lady, Unreliable

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• Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

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  Art, Bored, Touching

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• We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

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  Air, Breathe, Our Thoughts

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• Hay lugares encantadores en este mundo que tienen un encanto sensual para los ojos. Uno los ama con un amor físico. Las personas que nos sentimos atraídas por el campo guardamos un grato recuerdo de ciertas fuentes, ciertos bosques, ciertos estanques, ciertas colinas, que se han convertido en lugares familiares y pueden tocar nuestro corazón como acontecimientos felices. A veces, el recuerdo se remonta a un claro del bosque, a la orilla de un río o a un huerto en flor, que sólo vimos una vez en un día feliz, pero que conservamos en el corazón.

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  Memories, Spring, Eye

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• The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.' 'Make me sad.' 'Make me dream.' 'Make me laugh.' 'Make me shiver.' 'Make me weep.' 'Make me think.'

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  Dream, Thinking, Laughing

  Guy de Maupassant (1917). “Pierre and Jean: And Other Stories”

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• El beso en sí es inmortal. Viaja de labio en labio, de siglo en siglo, de edad en edad. Hombres y mujeres cosechan estos besos, los ofrecen a otros y luego mueren a su vez.

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  Kissing, Men, Age

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• And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.

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  Lying, Heart, Hands

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• A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!

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  Dream, Boys, Men

  Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Collected Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant: The Necklace + The Piece of String + Boule de Suif + Mademoiselle Fifi + Pierrot + Two Friends + La Maison Tellier + Ghosts and much more: From one of the greatest French writers, widely regarded as the ‘Father of Short Story’ writing, who had influenced W. Somerset Maugham, O. Henry, Anton Chekhov and Henry James”, p.158, e-artnow

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• I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.

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  Life, Lucky, Care

  Guy de Maupassant (2007). “The Horla and Other Stories”, p.38, Wildside Press LLC

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• Love always has its price, come whence it may.

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  Love, May, Love Always

  Guy de Maupassant (2012). “The Necklace and Other Short Stories”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.

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  Girl, Sweet, Artist

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