Famous Guy de Maupassant Quotes

  • A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption. – Guy de Maupassant

    A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.– Guy de Maupassant

  • Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. – Guy de Maupassant

    Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.– Guy de Maupassant

  • …A strange art -“ music -“ the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra. – Guy de Maupassant

    …A strange art -“ music -“ the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.– Guy de Maupassant

  • Nature loves death: she will not punish it. – Guy de Maupassant

    Nature loves death: she will not punish it.– Guy de Maupassant

  • Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare. – Guy de Maupassant

    Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.– Guy de Maupassant