"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it … - Guy de Maupassant

"I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt."

[As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy De Maupassant: A Study]

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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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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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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

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That was perhaps the only woman I have ever loved — no — that I ever should have loved. Ah, well! who can tell? Circumstances rule one. And then — and then — all passes.

It was one of those feminine faces whose every line has its own particular charm, and seems to possess a meaning, whose every movement seems to reveal or to conceal something.

It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.

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