Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother. - Guy de Maupassant

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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

Guy de Maupassant

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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 • Guy de Valmont • Maufrigneuse

Alternative Names: Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant • Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant • Maupassant

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Additional quotes by Guy de Maupassant

Une vie! Quelques jours et puis plus rien! On naît, on grandit, on est heureux, on attend, puis on meurt.

The matter had to be settled immediately, without delaying another day, for at times he too felt an imperious need for instant solutions, which is all the weak are capable of, given their inability to sustain an effort of will.

"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]