“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”
— Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
“It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.”
— Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
“...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.”
— Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
“Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.”
— Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.”
— Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
“The only certainty is death.”
— Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
“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.”
— Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
“It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.”
— Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
"You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government."
— Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
"Abstinence is the worst form of perversion."
— Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)
"Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck."
— Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893)