Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form. He was born on 5 August 1850. Here are some quotes from him:
- It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
- Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
- A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.
- Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
- It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
- Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
- You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
- Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
- There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
- A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!
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