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Quote of Guy de Maupassant - Who knows? How odd and fickle...


Biography - Guy de Maupassant:

French writer.
Born: 1850 - Died: 1893
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Who knows? How odd and fickle is life ! How little is needed to ruin or rescue us !



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
Qui sait ? Comme la vie est singulière, changeante ! Comme il faut peu de choses pour vous perdre ou vous sauver !




See also 

See also...



One word and all is saved
One word and all is lost.


Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom can dissolve everything, an atom can save everything




Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes for: change


Quotes

Quotes about change:


The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.





Change alone is the constant.





Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.





If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.





Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.





To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.











Quotes

Guy de Maupassant also said...


With most people the heart grows old with the body.





The heart has mysteries which no reasoning can penetrate.





It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.





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












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