266 Quotes by Guy de Maupassant

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!

Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

You’ve never lived until you’ve almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.