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1. "The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius." ~ Guy De Maupassant
2. "Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched." ~ Guy De Maupassant
3. "Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." ~ Guy De Maupassant
4. "It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both." ~ Guy De Maupassant
5. "How fathomless the mystery of the Unseen is! We cannot plumb its depths with our feeble senses - with eyes which cannot see the infinitely small or the infinitely great, nor anything too close or too distant, such as the beings who live on a star or the creatures which live in a drop of water... with ears that deceive us by converting vibrations of the air into tones that we can hear, for they are sprites which miraculously change movement into sound, a metamorphosis which gives birth to harmonies which turn the silent agitation of nature into song... with our sense of smell, which is poorer than any dog's... with our sense of taste, which is barely capable of detecting the age of a wine!Ah! If we had other senses which would work other miracles for us, how many more things would we not discover around us!" ~ Guy De Maupassant
6. "One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death." ~ Guy De Maupassant
7. "Why does one love? How queer it is to see only one being in the world, to have only one thought in one's mind, only one desire in the heart, and only one name on the lips--a name which comes up continually, rising, like the water in a spring, from the depths of the soul to the lips, a name which one repeats over and over again, which one whispers ceaselessly, everywhere, like a prayer." ~ Guy De Maupassant
8. "We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain." ~ Guy De Maupassant
9. "She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone." ~ Guy De Maupassant
10. "She was simple, not being able to adorn herself, but she was unhappy, as one out of her class; for women belong to no caste, no race, their grace, their beauty and their charm serving them in place of birth and family. Their inborn finesse, their instinctive elegance, their suppleness of wit, are their only aristocracy, making some daughters of the people the equal of great ladies." ~ Guy De Maupassant
11. "?????? ??? ?????? ?????? ????? ???? ?????????? ????????? ???????? ?????? ???? ?????? ??????? ?????? ?????????? ??????? ?????? ??? ????? ?????????? ???????, ??? ???, ????? ??, ????, ???????? ??????? ?????? ???????, ???????? ???????? ???? ??????????? ????? ?? ??? ? ??????? ?????????? ??? ?????? ????????? ???? ??? ??? ????? ??? ?????a?." ~ Guy De Maupassant
12. "Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness." ~ Guy De Maupassant
13. "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 movement of a terrible glacier or the traversing of the desert; and those, on the contrary, whom others weary, tire, bore, silently torture, whom isolation calms and bathes in the repose of independency, and plunges into the humors of their own thoughts. In fine, there is here a normal, physical phenomenon. Some are constituted to live a life outside of themselves, others, to live a life within themselves. As for me, my exterior associations are abruptly and painfully short-lived, and, as they reach their limits, I experience in my whole body and in my whole intelligence an intolerable uneasiness." ~ Guy De Maupassant
14. "She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul." ~ Guy De Maupassant
15. "She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that." ~ Guy De Maupassant
16. "Est-ce que nous voyons la cent millième partie de ce qui existe ? Tenez, voici le vent, qui est la plus grande force de la nature, qui renverse les hommes, abat les édifices, déracine les arbres, soulève la mer en montagnes d'eau, détruit les falaises, et jette aux brisants les grands navires, le vent qui tue, qui siffle, qui gémit, qui mugit, – l'avez-vous vu, et pouvez-vous le voir ? Il existe, pourtant." ~ Guy De Maupassant
17. "The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death." ~ Guy De Maupassant
18. "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
19. "Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miserly, how wretched! Stingily given, aridly invented, heavily made!Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miserly, how wretched! Stingily given, aridly invented, heavily made!" ~ Guy De Maupassant
20. "Nem nehéz dolog muvelt embernek látszani, annyi az egész mesterség, hogy ne fogasd rajta magadat valami tudatlanságon. Az ember manoverezik, elsikkasztja a nehézségeket, megkerüli az akadályokat, s egy lexikon segítségével lefoz mindenkit. Minden ember olyan buta, mint a liba, és olyan tudatlan, mint a szamár." ~ Guy De Maupassant
21. "Bisognerebbe amare, amare follemente, senza vedere ciò che si ama. Perché vedere è comprendere, e comprendere è disprezzare." ~ Guy De Maupassant
22. "It was then between one o'clock in the morning and half-past that hour; the sky soon cleared a bit before me, and the lunar crescent peeped out from behind the clouds - that sad crescent of the last quarter of the moon. The crescent of the new moon, that which rises at four or five o'clock in the evening, is clear, bright and silvery; but that which rises after midnight is red, sinister and disquieting; it is the true crescent of the witches' Sabbath: all night-walkers must have remarked the contrast. The first, even when it is as narrow as a silver thread, projects a cheery ray, which rejoices the heart, and casts on the ground sharply defined shadows; while the latter reflects only a mournful glow, so wan that the shadows are bleared and indistinct. ("Who Knows?")" ~ Guy De Maupassant
23. "Music, this complex and mysterious act, precise as algebra and vague as a dream, this art made out of mathematics and air, is simply the result of the strange properties of a little membrane. If that membrane did not exist, sound would not exist either, since in itself it is merely vibration. Would we be able to detect music without the ear? Of course not. Well, we are surrounded by things whose existence we never suspect, because we lack the organs that would reveal them to us. [Was He Mad?]" ~ Guy De Maupassant
24. "I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt."[As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study]" ~ Guy De Maupassant
25. "Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck."[On Water]" ~ Guy De Maupassant
26. "Elle se sentait en même temps indignée contre tous ses voisins, et humiliée d'avoir cedé, souillée par les baisers de ce Prussien entre les bras duquel on l'avait hypocritement jetée." ~ Guy De Maupassant
27. "Ich musste mich zusammennehmen! Ich wollte einfach keine Furcht mehr empfinden! Aber so fest ich mir's vornahm, immer regte sich ein zweites Ich, und dieses zweite Ich - hatte Furcht. Ich fragte mich, was es eigentlich zu fürchten gäbe. Mein tapferes Ich spottete über das feige Ich. Nie habe ich so wie an diesem Tage den Gegensatz der beiden Wesen verspürt, die in uns wohnen. Das eine will, das andere widerstrebt, und wechselnd haben sie die Oberhand." ~ Guy De Maupassant
28. "Iat-o eterna: Femeia era intradevar pentru el copilul de douasprezece ori mai imour de care vorbeste poetul (...) fiinta slaba, periculoasa, in chip misterios tulburatoare..." Abatele Marignan - O viata" ~ Guy De Maupassant
29. "cette oppression douloureuse, ce malaise de l'ame que laisse en nous lé chagrin sur lequel on a dormi. Il semble que lé malheur, dont lé choc nous a seulement heurte la veille, se soit glisse, durant nôtre repos, dans nôtre chair elle-meme, qu'il meurtrit et fatigue comme une fièvre.??? ????? ??????? ?????? ????? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ?????. ????? ?? ???? ??????? ???? ?????? ?????? ????? ???? ??????? ?? ????? ???? ?????? ?????? ??????." ~ Guy De Maupassant
30. "J'essayais de me raisonner : je me sentais la volonté bien ferme de ne point avoir peur, mais il y avait en moi autre chose que ma volonté, et cette autre chose avait peur. Je me demandai ce que je pouvais redouter ; mon moi brave railla mon moi poltron , et jamais aussi bien que ce jour-là je ne saisis l'opposition des deux êtres qui sont en nous, l'un voulant, l'autre résistant, et chacun l'emportant tour à tour.Cet effroi bête et inexplicable grandissait toujours et devenait de la terreur. Je demeurais immobile, les yeux ouverts, l'oreille tendue et attendant. Quoi ? Je n'en savais rien, mais ce devait être terrible." ~ Guy De Maupassant
31. "Car la même sensation reparaît chaque fois l'ordre établi de choses est renversé, que la sécurité n'existe plus, que tout ce que protégeait les lois des hommes oub celles de la nature, se trouve à la merci d'une brutalité inconsciente et féroce." ~ Guy De Maupassant
32. "Quelle" ~ Guy De Maupassant
33. "Soha senki sem tér vissza. Milliók és milliárdok fognak megszületni, körülbelül hasonlóak egymáshoz, lesz szemük, orruk, szájuk, koponyájuk, gondolat is benne, de az, aki ebben az ágyban fekszik, sohasem jelenik meg újra." ~ Guy De Maupassant
34. "The dead dog had come more than a hundred miles to find its master.[Mademoiselle Cocotte]" ~ Guy De Maupassant
35. "Néhány esztendeig élt, evett, kacagott, szeretett, remélt, mint mindenki. És most vége, örökre vége mindennek. Ez hát az élet! Néhány nap, aztán semmi! Az ember megszületik, felno, boldog, várakozik, aztán meghal. Isten veled, férfi vagy asszony, soha többé nem térsz vissza a földre! Pedig mindenki magában hordja a végtelenség lázas, megvalósíthatatlan vágyát, mindenki külön mindenség a mindenségben, és mindenki tökéletesen megsemmisül nemsokára, hogy új csíráknak trágyázza a talajt. Növények, álltatok, emberek, csillagok, egész világok – mind megelevenednek, aztán meghalnak, hogy átalakuljanak. És soha nem tér vissza ugyanaz a lény, akár féreg, akár ember, akár csillag!" ~ Guy De Maupassant
36. "Amilyen mértékben dagadt a teste, lelke egyre költoibben szárnyalt; s amíg az elhájasodott test a karosszék foglya lett, gondolatai érzelmes kalandokat szövögettek, melyeknek hosnojévé saját magát tette meg. Voltak kedvenc történetei, amiket álomképeiben mindig felidézett, ahogyan a zenélodoboz is végeszakadatlanul ugyanazt a dalt ismétli, ha felhúzzák." ~ Guy De Maupassant
37. "– Látja…az élet nem olyan jó…De nem is olyan rossz, amilyennek hisszük." ~ Guy De Maupassant
38. "Elle se sentait noyée dans le mépris de ces gredins honnêtes qui l'avaient sacrifiée d'abord, rejetée ensuite, comme une chose malpropre et inutile." ~ Guy De Maupassant
39. "They were so absorbed in their plotting that they did not hear Boule de Suif return. But the Comte's whispered 'shh!' made them all look up. There she was. A sudden silence fell, and at first a feeling of embarrassment prevented them from speaking to her. At last, however, the Comtesse, more of an adept than the rest in social duplicity, asked her: 'Did you enjoy the christening?" ~ Guy De Maupassant
40. "Why is it a shame for me to cause them to die and try to exterminate them, tell me? You did not talk that way when you used to come to my house in Jeanne-d'Arc street. Ah! it is a shame! You have not done as much, with your cross of honor! I deserve more merit than you, do you understand, more than you, for I have killed more Prussians than you!" ~ Guy De Maupassant
41. "Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all." ~ Guy De Maupassant
42. "il ne faut chercher que la vérité, sans s'occuper de la morale enseignée, orthodoxe et officielle ; de la morale, cette prétendue loi naturelle, indéfiniment variable, facultative, cette chose dosée différemment pour chaque pays, appréciée de façon nouvelle par chaque expert, prêtre ou législateur, et sans cesse modifiée par tout le monde." ~ Guy De Maupassant
43. "I had kissed her at odd times, in out of the way corners, in the manner of a mountain guide, nothing more." ~ Guy De Maupassant
44. "Vraiment, un homme sans moustache n'est plus un homme." ~ Guy De Maupassant
45. "He had a fund of small talk, a pleasant voice, a caressing glance and his moustache was irresistible. Crisp and curly, it curved charmingly over his lip, fair with auburn tints, slightly paler where it bristled at the ends." ~ Guy De Maupassant
46. "A szerelem! Két év óta növekvo szorongással töltötte el a közeledése. Most már szabad volt szeretnie; már csak találkoznia kellett vele! Milyen lesz? Pontosan nem is tudta, és nem is kérdezte magától. O lesz, a többi nem fontos. Csak annyit tudott: imádni fogja, és mindent megtesz érte. Együtt sétálnak ilyen esténként, mint a mai – kettesben a csillagoktól porzó ragyogásban. Egymás kezét fogják, s összesimulva mennek majd, és hallgatják egymás szívének dobogását, érzik válluk melegét, és szerelmük elvegyül a nyári éjszakák lágy tisztaságával. Annyira eggyé válnak, hogy könnyedén, gyöngédségük erejével megértik egymás legrejtettebb gondolatát is. És ez örökké így lesz; az elmondhatatlan szeretet nyugalmában." ~ Guy De Maupassant
47. "Put black on white." ~ Guy De Maupassant
48. "Hát mindenki aljas, hazug és álnok? Szeme könnybe borult. Ábrándjainkat néha olyan szomorúan siratjuk, mint a halottakat." ~ Guy De Maupassant
49. "La vie est une côte. Tant qu'on monte, on regarde le sommet, et on se sent heureux; mais, lorsqu'on arrive en haut, on aperçoit tout d'un coup la descente, et la fin, qui est la mort. Ça va lentement quand on monte, mais ça va vite quand on descend. A votre âge, on est joyeux. On espère tant de choses, qui n'arrivent jamais d'ailleurs. Au mien, on n'attend plus rien... que la mort." ~ Guy De Maupassant
50. "És most a halálomat érzem mindenben, akármit csinálok. Minden lépés a halálhoz visz közelebb, minden mozdulat, minden lehelet annak az utálatos munkáját sietteti. Lélegzés, alvás, evés, munka, álom, minden, amit csinálunk – halál. Egyszóval élni annyi, mint meghalni!" ~ Guy De Maupassant
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