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Guy de Maupassant Quotes: 7

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
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!
The only certainty is death.
Bel-Ami
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.
Bel-Ami
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."[My Uncle Sosthenes]
Complete Short Stories