Some people never have any luck. All at once, as though a thick veil had been whisked aside, he clearly saw the wretchedness — the bottomless, monoto… - Guy de Maupassant

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Some people never have any luck. All at once, as though a thick veil had been whisked aside, he clearly saw the wretchedness — the bottomless, monotonous wretchedness — of his existence. The wretchedness which had been, which was, and which was yet to come. His last days indistinguishable from the first, with nothing ahead of him or behind him or around him, nothing in his heart, nothing anywhere.

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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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