266 Quotes by Guy de Maupassant
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Gewahren wir denn wirklich den hundertsten Teil von all dem, was es gibt? Sehen Sie, der Wind, die größte Naturkraft, die Menschen umwirft, Häuser vom Boden fegt, Bäume entwurzelt, das Meer in Wasserbergen aufwühlt, Klippen und Felsen zermalmt und die mächtigsten Schiffe in die Brandung hinaus wirft, der Wind, der tötet, pfeift, stöhnt, brüllt - haben Sie den schon gesehen und können Sie ihn sehen? Und trotzdem ist er doch da.
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Get black on white.
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Madame Chantal―a large woman whose ideas always strike me as being square-shaped, like stones dressed by a mason―was in the habit of concluding any political discussion with the remark: 'As ye sow, so shall ye reap'. Why have I always imagined that Madame Chantal's ideas are square? I've no idea, but everything she says goes into that shape in my mind: a block―a large one―with four symmetrical angles.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."[My Uncle Sosthenes]
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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?
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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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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.
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Η αυτοχειρία! Μα είναι η δύναμη εκείνων που δεν έχουν πια δύναμη, η ελπίδα εκείνων που δεν πιστεύουν πια σε τίποτα, το ύψιστο θάρρος των ηττημένων! Ναι, τουλάχιστον υπάρχει μια διέξοδος σε τούτη τη ζωή, μια πόρτα την οποία μπορούμε να ανοίξουμε οπότε θέλουμε και να περάσουμε στην άλλη όχθη. Η φύση έκανε μια ευσπλαχνική κίνηση: δεν μας εγκλώβισε.
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