After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people… - Guy de Maupassant

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After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think.

Guy de Maupassant

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About Guy de Maupassant

Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer, one of the fathers of the modern short story.

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Pen Names: Joseph Prunier • Guy de Valmont • Maufrigneuse

Alternative Names: Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant • Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant • Maupassant

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What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace? Who knows? who knows? How strange and changeful is life! How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

She stayed there, in her ball dress, without strength to go to bed, overwhelmed, on a chair, without a fire, without a thought.

After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think. - Guy de Maupassant

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