O sleep! ridiculous mystery which makes faces appear so gro… - Guy de 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.

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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