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
dream drinking sleep
breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
sick body flesh
A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.
dream boys men
A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!
dream art strange
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
meteors thunderbolts
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
dream thinking laughing
The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.' 'Make me sad.' 'Make me dream.' 'Make me laugh.' 'Make me shiver.' 'Make me weep.' 'Make me think.'
coquetry my-friends
You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
kings wine champagne
Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines
dream real doors
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered