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. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation? -Guy De Maupassant

 

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. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?


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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

Guy De Maupassant

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

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The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Guy De Maupassant

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

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