The Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant Quotes

“...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Complete Works

“I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as we suspect so many hidden mysteries, man noting acoustic phenomena whose nature and provenance he cannot determine. And I grew afraid of everything around me – afraid of the air, afraid of the night. From the moment we can know almost nothing, and from the moment that everything is limitless, what remains? Does emptiness actually not exist? What does exist in this apparent emptiness?”
― Guy de Maupassant, Complete Works

“Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Complete Works

“I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal, since it is born, produces a movement, and is again transformed, in order to die. So the fearful mind that believes in incorporeal beings is not wrong. What are they?”
― Guy de Maupassant, Complete Works