4 Quotes by Guy de Maupassant about writing


  • Author Guy de Maupassant
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    There is a part of everything which is unexplored,because we are accustomed to using our eyes only in association with the memory of what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at. Even the smallest thing has something in it which is unknown.

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  • Author Guy de Maupassant
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    Language dazzles and deceives because it is masked by faces, because we see it emerging from the lips, because lips please and eyes beguile. But words on paper, black on white, reveal the naked soul.

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  • Author Guy de Maupassant
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    Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it.

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