Guy de Maupassant Quotes


And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.


Citations

Maupassant, Guy de. Bel-Ami. Translated by A. M. C. McMaster et al., M. Walter Dunne, 1903, p. 143.

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Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
  • Born: August 5, 1850
  • Died: July 6, 1893
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Novelist, Short Story Writer, Poet

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the Naturalist school, who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.