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 MaupassantEvery government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Guy de MaupassantWhatever 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.
Guy de Maupassant