“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.””
Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.””
“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.””
“A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.””
“Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms””
“I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space. ””
Guy de MaupassantGuy de Maupassant was a prominent 19th-century French author renowned for his mastery of the short story form and his contributions to the naturalist literary movement. A protégé of Gustave Flaubert, ...