Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassantmopasɑ̃]; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 August 1850
CountryFrance
Guy de Maupassant quotes about
two people feelings
She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.
doubt doubtful
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
memories spring heart
There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people who are attracted by the countryside cherish fond memories of certain springs, certain woods, certain ponds, certain hills, which have become familiar sights and can touch our hearts like happy events. Sometimes indeed the memory goes back towards a forest glade, or a spot on a river bank or an orchard in blossom, glimpsed only once on a happy day, but preserved in our heart.
crafts reports
You must render: never report.
tomorrow moments hours
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.
memories giving perfect
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
dream art strange
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
government people politics
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
things-in-life good-things good-things-in-life
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
meteors thunderbolts
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
air breathe our-thoughts
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
writing giving verbs
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.
healthy sublime brain
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
memories mirrors world
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!