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„Unsere Erinnerung ist eine vollkommenere Welt als das Universum: sie gibt denjenigen Leben zurück, die nicht mehr existieren.“

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„Ein erlaubter Kuss ist niemals soviel wert wie ein gestohlener.“

Guy De Maupassant buch Confessions d'une femme

Die Beichte einer Frau (Confessions d'une femme) in Vater Milon und andere Erzählungen (Le père Milon) , vgl. gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/vater-milon-und-andere-erzahlungen-2528/13
(Original frz.: Un baiser légal ne vaut jamais un baiser volé.) maupassant.free.fr http://maupassant.free.fr/textes/confess4.html

„Ich musste mich zusammennehmen! Ich wollte einfach keine Furcht mehr empfinden! Aber so fest ich mir's vornahm, immer regte sich ein zweites Ich, und dieses zweite Ich - hatte Furcht. Ich fragte mich, was es eigentlich zu fürchten gäbe. Mein tapferes Ich spottete über das feige Ich. Nie habe ich so wie an diesem Tage den Gegensatz der beiden Wesen verspürt, die in uns wohnen. Das eine will, das andere widerstrebt, und wechselnd haben sie die Oberhand.“

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„Diese Liebe ist etwas unwiderstehliches, zerstörerisches geworden, stärker als der Tod.“

Guy De Maupassant buch Like Death

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

„Ich glaube, daß durch das Gefühl dem Geist einer Frau alles offenbar wird, nur bleibt es oft nicht darin haften.“

Guy De Maupassant buch Unser Herz

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

„Ich kann nicht mehr wollen, aber jemand will für mich und ich gehorche.“

Guy De Maupassant buch Der Horla

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

„Worte blenden und täuschen, weil sie vom Gesicht nachgeahmt werden. Aber schwarze Worte auf einer weißen Seite entblößen die Seele.“

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„Es gibt nur eine gute Sache im Leben, und das ist Liebe.“

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Guy De Maupassant: Zitate auf Englisch

“Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.”

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"My Uncle Sosthenes"
Quelle: The Complete Short Stories Vol. 2 of 3

“Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.”

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

“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.”

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"The Love of Long Ago"

“You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.”

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"Sundays of a Bourgeois"
Quelle: Les dimanches d'un bourgeois de Paris, et autres aventures parisiennes

“Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.”

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“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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"The Englishman of Etretat"

“In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”

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Guy De Maupassant Bel-Ami

Quelle: Bel-Ami

“We love our mother unknowingly, and only realize how deep-rooted that love is at the ultimate separation.”

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“We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs … of our barbarous ancestors.”

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Guy De Maupassant buch Sur l'eau

Sur l’eau (1888)

“Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.”

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Guy De Maupassant buch Sur l'eau

Variant translation: Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.
Sur l’eau (1888)

“Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.”

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Guy De Maupassant buch Boule de Suif

Boule de Suif (1880)

“With women there is neither caste nor rank, for beauty, grace and charm take the place of family and birth. Natural ingenuity, instinct for what is elegant, a supple mind are their sole hierarchy, and often make of women of the people the equals of the very greatest ladies.
Mathilde suffered ceaselessly, feeling herself born to enjoy all delicacies and all luxuries.”

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La Parure (The Necklace) (1884)

“A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock — this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!”

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"The Question of Latin"

“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.”

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Guy De Maupassant buch Sur l'eau

Sur l’eau (1888)

“They held up to admiration all those women who from time to time have arrested the victorious progress of conquerors, made of their bodies a field of battle, a means of ruling, a weapon; who have vanquished by their heroic caresses hideous or detested beings, and sacrificed their chastity to vengeance and devotion.
All was said with due restraint and regard for propriety, the effect heightened now and then by an outburst of forced enthusiasm calculated to excite emulation.
A listener would have thought at last that the one role of woman on earth was a perpetual sacrifice of her person, a continual abandonment of herself to the caprices of a hostile soldiery.
The two nuns seemed to hear nothing, and to be lost in thought. Boule de Suif also was silent.”

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Guy De Maupassant buch Boule de Suif

Boule de Suif (1880)

“What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace? Who knows? who knows? How strange and changeful is life! How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!”

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Variant translation:
What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace? Who knows? Who knows? How singular life is, how changeable! What a little thing it takes to save you or to lose you.
La Parure (The Necklace) (1884)