"A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory an...












In fact living is dying.

More Guy de Maupassant quotes
"It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.
"We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like ...
"The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
"Nature loves death: she will not punish it.
"The only certainty is death.
"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 ...
"The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunder
"After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think.