Guy de Maupassant Quotes

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Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

Birthname

Birthday August 5, 1850

Death July 6, 1893

Manner of Death Natural Causes

Educated At Lycée Henri-IV, Lycée Pierre-Corneille

Nationality France, French Third Republic

Occupations Short Story Writer, Journalist, Playwright, Novelist, Writer

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Whatever you love passionately always destroys you in the end. But how can I explain what has happened to me? How can I make anyone even understand that I can write about it? I don’t know, I don’t know any more; all I know is that it is so.

— Guy de Maupassant, Paris Tales

Love breakup Heartbreak Passionate Love painful love Love & Relationships Relationships

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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

— Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant

Love Life Living A Good Life

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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

— Guy de Maupassant, A quote by Guy de Maupassant

Pretentions Deception Honesty Truth

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The day exhausts me, irritates me. It is brutal, noisy. I struggle to get out of bed, I dress wearily and, against my inclination, I go out. I find each step, each movement, each gesture, each word, each thought as tiring as if I were lifting a crushing weight.

— Guy de Maupassant, Paris Tales

Life Will Power Depression Sad

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For words of love, which are always the same, take the flavor of the lips they come from.

— Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

Love words of love romance sweet words sweetness of love

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We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like the movement of a terrible glacier or the traversing of the desert; and those, on the contrary, whom others weary, tire, bore, silently torture, whom isolation calms and bathes in the repose of independency, and plunges into the humors of their own thoughts. In fine, there is here a normal, physical phenomenon. Some are constituted to live a life outside of themselves, others, to live a life within themselves. As for me, my exterior associations are abruptly and painfully short-lived, and, as they reach their limits, I experience in my whole body and in my whole intelligence an intolerable uneasiness.’

— Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

An Introverted Mind

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