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Guy de Maupassant Quotes

Guy de Maupassant quotes

French Writer August 5, 1850 – July 6, 1893

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Music, this complex and mysterious act, precise as algebra and vague as a dream, this art made out of mathematics and air, is simply the result of the strange properties of a little membrane. If that membrane did not exist, sound would not exist either, since in itself it is merely vibration. Would we be able to detect music without the ear? Of course not. Well, we are surrounded by things whose existence we never suspect, because we lack the organs that would reveal them to us. [Was He Mad?] Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant quote: "A strange art? music? the most poetic and precise of all the..."
...A strange art? music? the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra. Guy de Maupassant
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 Maupassant
I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature and provenance he cannot determine. And I grew afraid of everything around me? afraid of the air, afraid of the night. From the moment we can know almost nothing, and from the moment that everything is limitless, what remains? Does emptiness actually not exist? What does exist in this apparent... Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant quote: "breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming,..."
breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die. Guy de Maupassant
She was, in fact, one of those people of exalted principles; one of those opinionated puritans, of which England produces so many; one of those good and insupportable old maids who haunt the tables d'hte of every hotel in Europe, who spoil Italy, poison Switzerland, render the charming cities of the Mediterranean uninhabitable, carry everywhere their fantastic manias, their manners of petrified vestals, their indescribable toilets and a certain odor of india-rubber which makes one believe... Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant quote: "Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror."
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror. Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant quote: "I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in..."
I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more. Guy de Maupassant
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 Maupassant
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
They were so absorbed in their plotting that they did not hear Boule de Suif return. But the Comte's whispered 'shh!' made them all look up. There she was. A sudden silence fell, and at first a feeling of embarrassment prevented them from speaking to her. At last, however, the Comtesse, more of an adept than the rest in social duplicity, asked her: 'Did you enjoy the christening? Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant quote: "The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the..."
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. Guy de Maupassant
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius. Guy de Maupassant
The matter had to be settled immediately, without delaying another day, for at times he too felt an imperious need for instant solutions, which is all the weak are capable of, given their inability to sustain an effort of will. Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant quote: "I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't..."
I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago? Guy de Maupassant

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