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Henry René Albert Guy de Maupassant [gidəmopɑˈsã] 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. August 1850 – 6. Juli 1893
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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&#x27;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 <br class="br">(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: &quot;Denn Liebe ist stark wie der Tod und Leidenschaft unwiderstehlich wie das Totenreich.&quot; <br class="br">(Original frz.: cet amour est devenu quelque chose d&#x27;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 <br class="br">(Original frz.: Je crois que le sentiment […] peut faire tout entrer dans l&#x27;esprit d&#x27;une femme ; seulement ça n&#x27;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 <br class="br">(Original frz.: &quot;Je ne peux plus vouloir ; mais quelqu&#x27;un veut pour moi ; et j&#x27;obéis.&quot;) 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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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

“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"

“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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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)

“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)

“I have come to the conclusion that the bed comprehends our whole life; for we were bom in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it.”

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"The Bed"

“That was perhaps the only woman I have ever loved — no — that I ever should have loved. Ah, well! who can tell? Circumstances rule one. And then — and then — all passes.”

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Guy De Maupassant buch The Wreck

The Wreck

“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. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort … The need of work is in me.”

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As quoted in Contemporary Portraits (1920) by Frank Harris, p. 263

“The count uttered several rather risky witticisms, but so tactfully were they said that his audience could not help smiling. Loiseau in turn made some considerably broader jokes, but no one took offence; and the thought expressed with such brutal directness by his wife was uppermost in the minds of all: "Since it's the girl's trade, why should she refuse this man more than another?"”

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Boule de Suif (1880)

“No one looked at her, no one thought of her. She felt herself swallowed up in the scorn of these virtuous creatures, who had first sacrificed, then rejected her as a thing useless and unclean.”

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Guy De Maupassant buch Boule de Suif

Boule de Suif (1880)

“In the cold light of the morning they almost bore a grudge against the girl for not having secretly sought out the Prussian, that the rest of the party might receive a joyful surprise when they awoke. What more simple?
Besides, who would have been the wiser? She might have saved appearances by telling the officer that she had taken pity on their distress. Such a step would be of so little consequence to her.
But no one as yet confessed to such thoughts.”

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Guy De Maupassant buch Boule de Suif

Boule de Suif (1880)

“At first no one spoke. Boule de Suif dared not even raise her eyes. She felt at once indignant with her neighbors, and humiliated at having yielded to the Prussian into whose arms they had so hypocritically cast her.”

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Boule de Suif (1880)

“I was hard hit. I wanted to ask this little girl to marry me. If we had passed eight days together, I should have done so! How weak and incomprehensible a man sometimes is!”

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Guy De Maupassant buch The Wreck

The Wreck

“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.
A disabused pleasure-seeker, he overthrew beliefs, hopes, poetic ideals and chimeras, destroyed the aspirations, ravaged the confidence of souls, killed love, dragged down the chivalrous worship of women, crushed the illusions of hearts, and accomplished the most gigantic task ever attempted by scepticism. He spared nothing with his mocking spirit, and exhausted everything. And even to-day those who execrate him seem to carry in their own souls particles of his thought.”

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"Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse"

“I took the book from him reverently, and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth.”

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"Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse"

“I did not love her, I did not even know her. And for all that, I was touched and conquered. I wanted to save her, to sacrifice myself for her, to commit a thousand follies! Strange thing! How does it happen that the presence of a woman overwhelms us so? Is it the power of her grace which enfolds us? Is it the seduction of her beauty and youth, which intoxicates one like wine?
Is it not rather the touch of Love, of Love the Mysterious, who seeks constantly to unite two beings, who tries his strength the instant he has put a man and a woman face to face?”

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The Wreck

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