Guy De Maupassant citáty

„Naša pamäť je dokonalejším svetom ako samotný vesmír: vracia život tým, ktorí už neexistujú.“

„V živote existuje iba jedna dobrá vec, a tou je láska.“

„V skutočnosti je život umieraním.“

„Do literárneho života som vstúpil ako meteor a opustím ho ako blesk.“

„Je lepšie byť nešťastný v láske ako nešťastný v manželstve, ale niektorým sa podarí byť oboje.“

„Keď milujeme, nie je nič lepšie ako dávať, stále dávať: život, myšlienky, telo, všetko, čo človek má, a cítiť, že dávam, a všetko staviť na to, aby som mohol dávať čoraz viac.“

„Život je ako staroba. Kým stúpame, pozeráme sa na vrcholok a sme šťastní; ale keď dôjdeme hore, naraz uvidíme svah dole aj koniec - smrť. Stúpanie ide pomaličky, ale zostup je rýchly.“

„Existujú také počestné ženy, že majú vždy výčitky svedomia, keď svojho muža podvádzajú.“

„Keď sa človek žení, je koniec všetkému. Žiarlivá náklonnosť ženy, tá podozrievavá, nepokojná a telesná náklonnosť nestrpí vedľa sebe vrúcne a vrelé príchylnosti, tie príchylnosti ducha, srdca a dôvery, čo existuje medzi dvomi mužmi.“

„Klebety sú útechou žien, ktoré už nikto nemiluje a nikto im už nedvorí.“

„Žena žije pocitom, že ak chvália iné, je to na jej ujmu.“

„Dejiny sú naplnené príkladmi o vernosti psov viac ako o vernosti priateľov.“

„Umelecké dielo je vynikajúce, len keď je zároveň symbolom a presným odrazom skutočnosti.“

„Manželstvo je ako lotéria. Nik nesmie naisto počítať, že vyhrá.“

„Načo klamať? Stačí hovoriť pravdu, aby nám verili.“

„Vrhol sa do manželstva ako do vody, asi preto si vzal drevo.“

„Zákony vo svojej majestátnej rovnoprávnosti zakazujú spať pod mostom, žobrať na verejnosti a kradnúť chlieb – rovnako bohatým ako chudobným.“

„Slová oslňujú a klamú, pretože sú napodobňované tvárou. Ale čierne slová na bielej stránke sú holá duša.“

“A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”

“The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.”

“It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.”

“In fact living is dying.”

“A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.”

“You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.”

“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”

“The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks.”

“The same thing happens whenever the established order of things is upset, when security no longer exists, when all those rights usually protected by the law of man or of Nature are at the mercy of unreasoning, savage force.”

“The anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of the enemy.”

“For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town.”

“At the end of a short time, once the first terror had subsided, calm was again restored.”

“Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms”

“… A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.”

“Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.”

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

“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.”

“One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.”

“The only certainty is death.”

“If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.”

“Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.”

“Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.”

“We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.”

“It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.”

“And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.”

“I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing”