There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
Guy de MaupassantShe was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being who is feeble, dangerous, mysteriously troubling. And even more than her body of perdition, he hated her loving soul.
Guy de MaupassantSince governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
Guy de Maupassant