Guy de Maupassant Quotes - Page 4

• To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Eye, Enemy, Mobility

  Guy de Maupassant, Robert Lethbridge (2001). “Pierre Et Jean”, p.118, Oxford University Press

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• I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal, since it is born, produces a movement, and is again transformed, in order to die. So the fearful mind that believes in incorporeal beings is not wrong. What are they?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Believe, Animal, Air

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• Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Brother, Despise, Love Always

  Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories - Bilingual Edition (English / French): An Adventure in Paris, Boule de Suif, Rust, Marroca, The Log, The Relic, Words of Love, Christmas Eve, Two Friends, Am I Insane?...”, p.81, e-artnow

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• She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Hombres, Alma, Cuerpo

  Guy de Maupassant (1923). “The Works of Guy de Maupassant”

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• The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so

  Guy de Maupassant

  Wine, Glasses, Half

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• Military men are the scourges of the world.

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  Military, Men, World

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

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• Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Law, Doe, Youth

  Guy de Maupassant (1989). "El lado oscuro de Guy de Maupassant"

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• Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines

  Guy de Maupassant

  Kings, Wine, Champagne

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• There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort... The need of work is in me.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Men, Needs, Fifty

  "Contemporary Portraits". Book by Frank Harris, 1920.

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• I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Long, Earth, Said

  Guy De Maupassant (2012). “The Horla”, p.11, Melville House

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