To contest an author's right to create a poetic or realistic work is to want to force him to change his temperament, challenge his originality, refuse to allow him to use the eye and the intelligence nature has given him.
Guy de MaupassantThe bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
Guy de MaupassantTravel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered
Guy de MaupassantWe live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.
Guy de MaupassantWar! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?
Guy de Maupassant