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+Title: Widger's Quotations from The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant
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+
+WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS
+
+FROM THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITION OF
+THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT
+
+by David Widger
+
+
+
+
+EDITOR'S NOTE
+
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+may wish to see if their favorite passages are listed in this
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+
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+questions or suggested additions to these extracts.
+
+D.W.
+
+
+
+
+
+VOLUMES:
+
+Complete Short Stories, by Maupassant      [GM#15][gm00v10.txt]3090
+Short Stories V13, by  Guy de Maupassant   [GM#14][gm13v10.txt]3089
+Short Stories V12, by  Guy de Maupassant   [GM#13][gm12v10.txt]3088
+Short Stories V11, by  Guy de Maupassant   [GM#12][gm11v10.txt]3087
+Short Stories V10, by  Guy de Maupassant   [GM#11][gm10v10.txt]3086
+Short Stories  V9, by  Guy de Maupassant   [GM#10][gm09v10.txt]3085
+Short Stories  V8, by  Guy de Maupassant    [GM#9][gm08v10.txt]3084
+Short Stories  V7, by  Guy de Maupassant    [GM#8][gm07v10.txt]3083
+Short Stories  V6, by  Guy de Maupassant    [GM#7][gm06v10.txt]3082
+Short Stories  V5, by  Guy de Maupassant    [GM#6][gm05v10.txt]3081
+Short Stories  V4, by  Guy de Maupassant    [GM#5][gm04v10.txt]3080
+Short Stories  V3, by  Guy de Maupassant    [GM#4][gm03v10.txt]3079
+Short Stories  V2, by  Guy de Maupassant    [GM#3][gm02v10.txt]3078
+Short Stories  V1, by  Guy de Maupassant    [GM#2][gm01v10.txt]3077
+
+
+
+
+Contents of the 13 Volumes (180 Stories)
+
+     Volume I.
+
+Guy De Maupassant--a Study by Pol. Neveux
+
+Boule De Suif
+Two Friends
+The Lancer's Wife
+The Prisoners
+Two Little Soldiers
+Father Milon
+A Coup D'etat
+Lieutenant Lare's Marriage
+The Horrible
+Madame Parisse
+Mademoiselle Fifi
+A Duel
+
+
+
+     Volume II.
+
+The Colonel's Ideas
+Mother Sauvage
+Epiphany
+The Mustache
+Madame Baptiste
+The Question of Latin
+A Meeting
+The Blind Man
+Indiscretion
+A Family Affair
+Beside Schopenhauer's Corpse
+
+
+
+     Volume III.
+
+Miss Harriet
+Little Louise Roque
+The Donkey
+Moiron
+The Dispenser of Holy Water
+The Parricide
+Bertha
+The Patron
+The Door
+A Sale
+The Impolite Sex
+A Wedding Gift
+The Relic
+
+
+
+     Volume IV.
+
+The Moribund
+The Gamekeeper
+The Story of a Farm Girl
+The Wreck
+Theodule Sabot's Confession
+The Wrong House
+The Diamond Necklace
+The Marquis De Fumerol
+The Trip of the Horla
+Farewell
+The Wolf
+The Inn
+
+
+
+     Volume V.
+
+Monsieur Parent
+Queen Hortense
+Timbuctoo
+Tombstones
+Mademoiselle Pearl
+The Thief
+Clair De Lune
+Waiter, a "Bock"
+After
+Forgiveness
+In the Spring
+A Queer Night in Paris
+
+
+
+     Volume VI.
+
+That Costly Ride
+Useless Beauty
+The Father
+My Uncle Sosthenes
+The Baroness
+Mother and Son
+The Hand
+A Tress of Hair
+On the River
+The Cripple
+A Stroll
+Alexandre
+The Log
+Julie Romaine
+The Rondoli Sisters
+
+
+
+     Volume VII.
+
+The False Gems
+Fascination
+Yvette Samoris
+A Vendetta
+My Twenty-five Days
+"The Terror"
+Legend of Mont St. Michel
+A New Year's Gift
+Friend Patience
+Abandoned
+The Maison Tellier
+Denis
+My Wife
+The Unknown
+The Apparition
+
+
+
+     Volume VIII.
+
+Clochette
+The Kiss
+The Legion of Honor
+The Test
+Found on a Drowned Man
+The Orphan
+The Beggar
+The Rabbit
+His Avenger
+My Uncle Jules
+The Model
+A Vagabond
+The Fishing Hole
+The Spasm
+In the Wood
+Martine
+All over
+The Parrot
+A Piece of String
+
+
+
+     Volume IX.
+
+Toine
+Madame Husson's Rosier
+The Adopted Son
+A Coward
+Old Mongilet
+Moonlight
+The First Snowfall
+Sundays of a Bourgeois
+A Recollection
+Our Letters
+The Love of Long Ago
+Friend Joseph
+The Effeminates
+Old Amable
+
+
+
+     Volume X.
+
+The Christening
+The Farmer's Wife
+The Devil
+The Snipe
+The Will
+Walter Schnaff's Adventure
+At Sea
+Minuet
+The Son
+That Pig of a Morin
+Saint Anthony
+Lasting Love
+Pierrot
+A Normandy Joke
+Father Matthew
+
+
+
+     Volume XI.
+
+The Umbrella
+Belhomme's Beast
+Discovery
+The Accursed Bread
+The Dowry
+The Diary of a Mad Man
+The Mask
+The Penguins Rock
+A Family
+Suicides
+An Artifice
+Dreams
+Simon's Papa
+
+
+
+     Volume XII.
+
+The Child
+A Country Excursion
+Rose
+Rosalie Prudent
+Regret
+A Sister's Confession
+Coco
+A Dead Woman's Secret
+A Humble Drama
+Mademoiselle Cocotte
+The Corsican Bandit
+The Grave
+
+
+
+     Volume XIII.
+
+Old Judas
+The Little Cask
+Boitelle
+A Widow
+The Englishmen of Etretat
+Magnetism
+A Fathers Confession
+A Mother of Monsters
+An Uncomfortable Bed
+A Portrait
+The Drunkard
+The Wardrobe
+The Mountain Pool
+A Cremation
+Misti
+Madame Hermet
+The Magic Couch
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+SHORT STORIES  V1
+[GM#2][gm01v10.txt]3077
+
+Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies
+Dependent, like other emotions, on surroundings
+Devouring faith which is the making of martyrs and visionaries
+Freemasonry made up of those who possess
+Great ones of this world who make war
+I am learning my trade
+Insolent like all in authority
+Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother
+Like all women, being very fond of indigestible things
+Presence of a woman, that sovereign inspiration
+Spirit of order and arithmetic in the business house
+Subtleties of expression to describe the most improper things
+Thin veneer of modesty of every woman
+Thrill of furious and bestial anger which urges on a mob to massacre
+
+
+
+
+
+SHORT STORIES  V2
+[GM#3][gm02v10.txt]3078
+
+Chronic passion for cleaning
+Greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth
+Hardly understand at all those bellicose ardors
+Key of a door
+Kiss of the man without a mustache
+Let us be indignant, or let us be enthusiastic
+Muscles of their faces have never learned the motions of laughter
+Resisted that feeling of comfort and relief
+Unconscious brutality which is so common in the country
+What is sadder than a dead house
+
+
+
+
+
+SHORT STORIES  V3
+[GM#4][gm03v10.txt]3079
+
+Did wrong in doing her duty
+Don't talk about things you know nothing about
+Impenetrable night, thicker than walls and empty
+Love is always love, come whence it may
+My God!  my God!" without believing, nevertheless, in God
+Pines, close at hand, seemed to be weeping
+Preserved in a pickle of innocence
+She was an ornament, not a home
+
+
+
+
+
+SHORT STORIES  V4
+[GM#5][gm04v10.txt]3080
+
+The warm autumn sun was beating down on the farmyard.  Under the grass,
+which had been cropped close by the cows, the earth soaked by recent
+rains, was soft and sank in under the feet with a soggy noise, and the
+apple trees, loaded with apples, were dropping their pale green fruit in
+the dark green grass.
+
+The servant, Rose, remained alone in the large kitchen, where the fire
+was dying out on the hearth beneath the large boiler of hot water.  From
+time to time she dipped out some water and slowly washed her dishes,
+stopping occasionally to look at the two streaks of light which the sun
+threw across the long table through the window, and which showed the
+defects in the glass.
+
+The fowls were lying on the steaming dunghill; some of them were
+scratching with one claw in search of worms, while the cock stood up
+proudly in their midst.  When he crowed, the cocks in all the neighboring
+farmyards replied to him, as if they were uttering challenges from farm
+to farm.
+
+Neither could there be any scruples about an unequal match between them,
+for in the country every one is very nearly equal; the farmer works with
+his laborers, who frequently become masters in their turn, and the female
+servants constantly become the mistresses of the establishments without
+its making any change in their life or habits.
+
+Is it not rather the touch of Love, of Love the Mysterious, who seeks
+constantly to unite two beings, who tries his strength the instant he has
+put a man and a woman face to face?
+
+
+
+
+
+SHORT STORIES  V5
+[GM#6][gm05v10.txt]3081
+
+Calling all religious things "weeper's wares"
+Everyone has his share
+How much excited cowardice there often is in boldness
+Love has no law
+People do not think as they speak, and do not speak as they act
+Rage of a timid man
+She saw that he would yield on every point
+
+
+
+
+
+SHORT STORIES  V6
+[GM#7][gm06v10.txt]3082
+
+As he had never enjoyed anything, he desired nothing
+Do you know how I picture God?
+Don't know what to say, for I am always terribly stupid at first
+Hotel bed: Who has occupied it the night before?
+Irresistible force of mutual affection
+Isn't for the fun of it, anyhow!
+Love must unsettle the mind
+Machine for bringing children into the world
+Moments of friendly silence
+One cannot both be and have been
+Only by going a long distance from home
+Sadness of existences that have had their day
+Well-planned disorder
+When did you lie, the last time or now?
+
+
+
+
+
+SHORT STORIES  V7
+[GM#8][gm07v10.txt]3083
+
+A sceptical genius has said: "God made man in his image and man has
+returned the compliment."  This saying is an eternal truth, and it would
+be very curious to write the history of the local divinity of every
+continent as well as the history of the patron saints in each one of our
+provinces.  The negro has his ferocious man-eating idols; the polygamous
+Mahometan fills his paradise with women; the Greeks, like a practical
+people, deified all the passions.
+
+Pierre Letoile was silent.  His companions were laughing.  One of them
+said: "Marriage is indeed a lottery; you must never choose your numbers.
+The haphazard ones are the best."--Another added by way of conclusion:
+"Yes, but do not forget that the god of drunkards chose for Pierre."
+
+No noise in the little park, no breath of air in the leaves; no voice
+passes through this silence.  One ought to write at the entrance to this
+district: 'No one laughs here; they take care of their health.'
+
+"Listen, Jacques.  He has forbidden me to see you again, and I will not
+play this comedy of coming secretly to your house.  You must either lose
+me or take me."--"My dear Irene, in that case, obtain your divorce, and I
+will marry you."--"Yes, you will marry me in--two years at the soonest.
+Yours is a patient love."
+
+
+
+
+
+SHORT STORIES  V8
+[GM#9][gm08v10.txt]3084
+
+"Do you know the people who live in the little red cottage at the end of
+the Rue du Berceau?"--Madame Bondel was out of sorts.  She answered: "Yes
+and no; I am acquainted with them, but I do not care to know them."
+
+It seems that he had led a bad life, that is to say, he had squandered a
+little money, which action, in a poor family, is one of the greatest
+crimes.  With rich people a man who amuses himself only sows his wild
+oats.  He is what is generally called a sport.  But among needy families
+a boy who forces his parents to break into the capital becomes a good-
+for-nothing, a rascal, a scamp.  And this distinction is just, although
+the action be the same, for consequences alone determine the seriousness
+of the act.
+
+"Why; you are just the same as the others, you fool!"  That was indeed
+bravado, one of those pieces of impudence of which a woman makes use when
+she dares everything, risks everything, to wound and humiliate the man
+who has aroused her ire.  This poor man must also be one of those
+deceived husbands, like so many others.  He had said sadly: "There are
+times when she seems to have more confidence and faith in our friends
+than in me."  That is how a husband formulated his observations on the
+particular attentions of his wife for another man.  That was all.  He had
+seen nothing more.  He was like the rest--all the rest!
+
+He awaited he knew not what, possessed with that vague hope which
+persists in the human heart in spite of everything.  He awaited in the
+corner of the farmyard in the biting December wind, some mysterious aid
+from Heaven or from men, without the least idea whence it was to arrive.
+A number of black hens ran hither and thither, seeking their food in the
+earth which supports all living things.  Ever now and then they snapped
+up in their beaks a grain of corn or a tiny insect; then they continued
+their slow, sure search for nutriment.
+
+
+
+
+
+SHORT STORIES  V9
+[GM#10][gm09v10.txt]3085
+
+Full of that common sense which borders on stupidity
+Let them respect my convictions, and I will respect theirs
+Love that is sacred--not marriage!
+Mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority
+Night-robe of streams and meadows
+Only being allowed to read religious works or cook-books
+Poetry did not seem to be the strong point
+Purgatory and paradise according to the yearly income
+She went through life in a mood of perpetual discontent
+So stupid and they pretend they know everything
+Spend his time quietly regretting the past
+The tomb is the boundary of conjugal sinning
+When we love, we have need of confession
+World has made laws to combat our instincts
+
+
+
+
+
+SHORT STORIES V10
+[GM#11][gm10v10.txt]3086
+
+"I heard 'birr!  birr!' and a magnificent covey rose at ten paces from
+me.  I aimed.  Pif!  paf!  and I saw a shower, a veritable shower of
+birds.  There were seven of them!"--And they all went into raptures,
+amazed, but reciprocally credulous.
+
+She was still smiling as she looked at him; she even began to laugh; and
+he lost his head trying to find something suitable to say, no matter
+what.  But he could think of nothing, nothing, and then, seized with a
+coward's courage, he said to himself: 'So much the worse, I will risk
+everything,' and suddenly, without the slightest warning, he went toward
+her, his arms extended, his lips protruding, and, seizing her in his
+arms, he kissed her.
+
+My elder sons never loved me, never petted me, scarcely treated me as a
+mother, but during my whole life I did my duty towards them, and I owe
+them nothing more after my death.  The ties of blood cannot exist without
+daily and constant affection.  An ungrateful son is less than, a
+stranger; he is a culprit, for he has no right to be indifferent towards
+his mother.
+
+
+
+
+
+SHORT STORIES V11
+[GM#12][gm11v10.txt]3087
+
+I held my tongue, and thought over those words.  Oh, ethics!  Oh, logic!
+Oh, wisdom!  At his age!  So they deprived him of his only remaining
+pleasure out of regard for his health!  His health!  What would he do
+with it, inert and trembling wreck that he was?  They were taking care of
+his life, so they said.  His life?  How many days?  Ten, twenty, fifty,
+or a hundred?  Why?  For his own sake?  Or to preserve for some time
+longer the spectacle of his impotent greediness in the family.
+
+But all at once one envelope made me start.  My name was traced on it in
+a large, bold handwriting; and suddenly tears came to my eyes.  That
+letter was from my dearest friend, the companion of my youth, the
+confidant of my hopes; and he appeared before me so clearly, with his
+pleasant smile and his hand outstretched, that a cold shiver ran down my
+back.  Yes, yes, the dead come back, for I saw him!  Our memory is a more
+perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no
+longer exist.
+
+But she shook with rage, and got up one of those conjugal scenes which
+make a peaceable man dread the domestic hearth more than a battlefield
+where bullets are raining.
+
+
+
+
+
+SHORT STORIES V12
+[GM#13][gm12v10.txt]3088
+
+Monsieur Saval, who was called in Mantes "Father Saval," had just risen
+from bed.  He was weeping.  It was a dull autumn day; the leaves were
+falling.  They fell slowly in the rain, like a heavier and slower rain.
+M. Saval was not in good spirits.  He walked from the fireplace to the
+window, and from the window to the fireplace.  Life has its sombre days.
+It would no longer have any but sombre days for him, for he had reached
+the age of sixty-two.  He is alone, an old bachelor, with nobody about
+him.  How sad it is to die alone, all alone, without any one who is
+devoted to you!
+
+He pondered over his life, so barren, so empty.  He recalled former days,
+the days of his childhood, the home, the house of his parents; his
+college days, his follies; the time he studied law in Paris, his father's
+illness, his death.  He then returned to live with his mother.  They
+lived together very quietly, and desired nothing more.  At last the
+mother died.  How sad life is!  He lived alone since then, and now, in
+his turn, he, too, will soon be dead.  He will disappear, and that will
+be the end.  There will be no more of Paul Saval upon the earth.  What a
+frightful thing!  Other people will love, will laugh.  Yes, people will
+go on amusing themselves, and he will no longer exist!  Is it not strange
+that people can laugh, amuse themselves, be joyful under that eternal
+certainty of death?  If this death were only probable, one could then
+have hope; but no, it is inevitable, as inevitable as that night follows
+the day.
+
+
+
+
+
+SHORT STORIES V13
+[GM#14][gm13v10.txt]3089
+
+How I understood them, these who weak, harassed by misfortune, having
+lost those they loved, awakened from the dream of a tardy compensation,
+from the illusion of another existence where God will finally be just,
+after having been ferocious, and their minds disabused of the mirages of
+happiness, have given up the fight and desire to put an end to this
+ceaseless tragedy, or this shameful comedy.
+
+Suicide!  Why, it is the strength of those whose strength is exhausted,
+the hope of those who no longer believe, the sublime courage of the
+conquered!  Yes, there is at least one door to this life we can always
+open and pass through to the other side.  Nature had an impulse of pity;
+she did not shut us up in prison.  Mercy for the despairing!
+
+If genius is, as is commonly believed, a sort of aberration of great
+minds, then Algernon Charles Swinburne is undoubtedly a genius.
+
+Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this
+sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but
+are slightly touched by madness.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+COMPLETE SHORT STORIES,  BY MAUPASSANT
+[GM#15][gm00v10.txt]3090
+
+Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies
+As he had never enjoyed anything, he desired nothing
+Calling all religious things "weeper's wares"
+Chronic passion for cleaning
+Dependent, like other emotions, on surroundings
+Devouring faith which is the making of martyrs and visionaries
+Did wrong in doing her duty
+Do you know how I picture God?
+Don't talk about things you know nothing about
+Don't know what to say, for I am always terribly stupid at first
+Everyone has his share
+Freemasonry made up of those who possess
+Full of that common sense which borders on stupidity
+Great ones of this world who make war
+Greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth
+Hardly understand at all those bellicose ardors
+Hotel bed: Who has occupied it the night before?
+How much excited cowardice there often is in boldness
+I am learning my trade
+Impenetrable night, thicker than walls and empty
+Insolent like all in authority
+Irresistible force of mutual affection
+Isn't for the fun of it, anyhow!
+Key of a door
+Kiss of the man without a mustache
+Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother
+Let us be indignant, or let us be enthusiastic
+Let them respect my convictions, and I will respect theirs
+Like all women, being very fond of indigestible things
+Love is always love, come whence it may
+Love must unsettle the mind
+Love has no law
+Love that is sacred--not marriage!
+Machine for bringing children into the world
+Mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority
+Moments of friendly silence
+Muscles of their faces have never learned the motions of laughter
+"My God!  my God!" without believing, nevertheless, in God
+Night-robe of streams and meadows
+One cannot both be and have been
+Only by going a long distance from home
+Only being allowed to read religious works or cook-books
+People do not think as they speak, and do not speak as they act
+Pines, close at hand, seemed to be weeping
+Poetry did not seem to be the strong point
+Presence of a woman, that sovereign inspiration
+Preserved in a pickle of innocence
+Purgatory and paradise according to the yearly income
+Rage of a timid man
+Resisted that feeling of comfort and relief
+Sadness of existences that have had their day
+She was an ornament, not a home
+She went through life in a mood of perpetual discontent
+She saw that he would yield on every point
+So stupid and they pretend they know everything
+Spend his time quietly regretting the past
+Spirit of order and arithmetic in the business house
+Subtleties of expression to describe the most improper things
+The tomb is the boundary of conjugal sinning
+Thin veneer of modesty of every woman
+Thrill of furious and bestial anger which urges on a mob to massacre
+Unconscious brutality which is so common in the country
+Well-planned disorder
+What is sadder than a dead house
+When we love, we have need of confession
+When did you lie, the last time or now?
+World has made laws to combat our instincts
+
+
+
+
+
+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of Widger's Quotations
+from the Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, by David Widger
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