Zitate von Guy De Maupassant

Stark wie der Tod (Fort comme la mort), Teil 2, Kap. VI, vgl. gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/stark-wie-der-tod-2516/1 - Nach der Bibel, Hohelied 8,6: "Denn Liebe ist stark wie der Tod und Leidenschaft unwiderstehlich wie das Totenreich."
(Original frz.: cet amour est devenu quelque chose d'irrésistible, de destructeur, de plus fort que la mort.) maupassant.free.fr http://maupassant.free.fr/fort/fortc.htm

Unser einsames Herz (Notre cœur), 1. Teil, Kap. I gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/unser-herz-2533/1
(Original frz.: Je crois que le sentiment […] peut faire tout entrer dans l'esprit d'une femme ; seulement ça n'y reste pas souvent.) maupassant.free.fr http://maupassant.free.fr/coeur/coeurc.htm

Der Horla (Le Horla), Version von 1887 gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/2518/1
(Original frz.: "Je ne peux plus vouloir ; mais quelqu'un veut pour moi ; et j'obéis.") maupassant.free.fr http://maupassant.free.fr/textes/horla2.html

Quelle: Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

"Miss Harriet"

As quoted in "Guy De Maupassant : A Study" by Pol Neveux, in Original Short Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3090

"A Wife's Confession"

Quelle: Bel-Ami

Quelle: The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

"Suicides"

"The Love of Long Ago"
Quelle: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Kontext: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

Variant translation:
She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born by a blunder of destiny in a family of employees. She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, married by a man rich and distinguished; and she let them make a match for her with a little clerk in the Department of Education.
La Parure (The Necklace) (1884)
Kontext: 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. She had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being known, understood, loved, married by any rich and distinguished man; so she let herself be married to a little clerk of the Ministry of Public Instruction.

Boule de Suif (1880)
Kontext: 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 earthquake crushing a whole nation under falling roofs; the flood let loose, and engulfing in its swirling depths the corpses of drowned peasants, along with dead oxen and beams torn from shattered houses; or the army, covered with glory, murdering those who defend themselves, making prisoners of the rest, pillaging in the name of the Sword, and giving thanks to God to the thunder of cannon — all these are appalling scourges, which destroy all belief in eternal justice, all that confidence we have been taught to feel in the protection of Heaven and the reason of man.