More from Guy de Maupassant

  1. Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
  2. For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town. They were mere disorganized bands, not disciplined…
  3. 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,…
  4. Life seemed to have stopped short; the shops were shut, the streets deserted. Now and then an inhabitant, awed by the silence, glided swift…
  5. Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
  6. The same thing happens whenever the established order of things is upset, when security no longer exists, when all those rights usually pro…
  7. Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so swe…
  8. At the end of a short time, once the first terror had subsided, calm was again restored. In many houses the Prussian officer ate at the sam…

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