I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at these f… - Guy de Maupassant

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I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth.

Guy de Maupassant

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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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Alternative Names: Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant • Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant • Guy de Valmont • Joseph Prunier • Maupassant

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O sleep! ridiculous mystery which makes faces appear so grotesque, you are the revealer of human ugliness. You uncover all shortcomings, all deformities and all defects. You turn every face touched by you into a caricature.

breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

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