Get black on white.
Guy de MaupassantIt is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
Guy de MaupassantAnd 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.
Guy de MaupassantPatriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."
[My Uncle Sosthenes]
Tags: fanaticism patriotism religion extremism wars
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.
Guy de MaupassantTags: kiss
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.
Guy de MaupassantTags: time
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 MaupassantTags: nature
A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!
Guy de MaupassantBroad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
Guy de MaupassantTags: horror supernatural
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.
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