Guy de Maupassant
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I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
— As quoted in "Guy De Maupassant : A Study" by Pol Neveux, in Original Short Stories
Henry René Albert Guy de Maupassant [gidəmopɑˈsã] (* 5. August 1850 auf Schloss Miromesnil in Tourville-sur-Arques, Normandie; † 6. Juli 1893 in Passy, Paris) war ein französischer Schriftsteller und Journalist. Maupassant gilt neben Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert und Zola als einer der großen französischen Erzähler des 19. Jahrhunderts. Er ist auch einer der am häufigsten verfilmten Autoren.
Sourced, dated quotes from Guy de Maupassant
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness.
I have come to the conclusion that the bed comprehends our whole life; for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it.
Let us protest and let us be angry, let us be indignant, or let us be enthusiastic, Schopenhauer has marked humanity with the seal of his disdain and of his disenchantment.
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
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