Guy de Maupassant Quotes


Were a man to spend only one day in Sicily and ask, "What must one see?" I would answer him without hesitation, "Taormina." It is only a landscape, but a landscape where you find everything on earth that seems made to seduce the eyes, the mind and the imagination.


Citations

Maupassant, Guy de. The Wandering Life. M. Walter Dunne, 1903, p. 57.

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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.