breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, e… - Guy de Maupassant

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

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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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In fact living is dying.

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

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