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Guy de Maupassant

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Military men are the scourges of the world.


— Guy de Maupassant


#military #men

But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor?


— Guy de Maupassant


#obedience #love

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study]


— Guy de Maupassant


#death #meteors #natural-phenomena #news #sensations

Ces six personnes formaient le fond de la voiture, le côté de la société rentée, sereine et forte, des honnêtes gens autorisés qui ont de la Religion et des Principes.


— Guy de Maupassant


#pride #reputation #religion

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.


— Guy de Maupassant


#bottoms #cosmic #essence #female #life

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.


— Guy de Maupassant


#life #lives #living #make #worth

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


#difficult #dilemmas #extricate #genius #liars

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.


— Guy de Maupassant


#captain #duty #every #government #much

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.


— Guy de Maupassant


#both #love #manage #marriage #people

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.


— Guy de Maupassant


#egg #hatched #kind #religion #wars






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Did you know about Guy de Maupassant?

ˈsɑ̃] ; 5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. The story "Boule de Suif" ("Ball of Fat" 1880) is often accounted his masterpiece. On January 2 1892 Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat and was committed to the celebrated private asylum of Esprit Blanche at Passy in Paris where he died on July 6 1893.

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (French pronunciation: ​[gi d(ə) mo. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s and several describe the futility of war and the innocent civilians who caught in the conflict emerge changed. The story "Boule de Suif" ("Ball of Fat" 1880) is often accounted his masterpiece.

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