Quotes by Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. — Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
....and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shattere — Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, — Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
When the first fine spring days come, and the earth awakes and assumes its garment of verdure, when the perfumed warmth — Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense tha — Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
We are all very much alike in France in this respect; we still remain knights, knights of love and fortune, since God ha — Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these — Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresistible irony of the — Guy de Maupassant, The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One