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There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must… - Guy de Maupassant
" "There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort … The need of work is in me.
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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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Also Known As
Pen Names:
Joseph Prunier
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Guy de Valmont
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Maufrigneuse
Alternative Names:
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
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Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant
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Maupassant
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I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature and provenance he cannot determine. And I grew afraid of everything around me – afraid of the air, afraid of the night. From the moment we can know almost nothing, and from the moment that everything is limitless, what remains? Does emptiness actually not exist? What does exist in this apparent emptiness?
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