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Guy de Maupassant quote: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

Guy de Maupassant portrait and quote: You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

Guy de Maupassant quote: Life is a slope. As long as you're going up, you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

Guy de Maupassant portrait and quote: Les paroles d'amour, qui sont toujours les mêmes, prennent le goût des lèvres dont elles sortent.

Guy de Maupassant portrait and quote: If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.

Guy de Maupassant quote (in blue text): Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

Guy de Maupassant quote: Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

Guy de Maupassant portrait and quote: Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

Guy de Maupassant portrait and quote: ...breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

Guy de Maupassant portrait and quote: Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Guy de Maupassant portrait and quote: Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Charles Darwin quote: if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week

Charles Darwin quote: 'It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.'

Charles Darwin quote: An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Charles Darwin quote: Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.

Charles Darwin portrait and quote: The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

Charles Darwin quote: Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts, which in us would be called moral;

Charles Darwin portrait and quote: A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin portrait and quote: Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity, more humble, and I believe true, to consider him created from animals.

Charles Darwin portrait and quote: Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin portrait and quote: If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin;

Charles Darwin portrait and quote: The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

Charles Darwin portrait and quote: The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble to us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic.

Charles Darwin portrait and quote: There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

Charles Darwin portrait and quote: We are not here concerned with hopes or fears only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: I wish that every human life may be pure transparent freedom.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

Simone de Beauvoir quote: No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Simone de Beauvoir portrait and quote: I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

Simone de Beauvoir portrait and quote: Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Simone de Beauvoir portrait and quote: A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.