Guy de Maupassant Quotes


I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.


Citations

Maupassant, Guy de. "A Vagabond." The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, translated by A. E. Henderson et al., P. F. Collier & Son, 1903.

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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.