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Una vita
Guy de Maupassant
La casa Tellier
Guy de MaupassantGuy de Maupassant frasi celebri
“Un bacio legale non potrà mai valere un bacio rubato.”
Origine: Da Confessioni di una donna, in Maupassant, La casa Tellier, Sansoni 1965, trad. di Mario Picchi
Frasi sulla vita di Guy de Maupassant
da "Solitudine"
Racconti fantastici
da Lui?
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da Vita errante
La vita errante
Origine: Da Suicidi; in Tutti i racconti neri, fantastici e crudeli, a cura di Lucio Chiavarelli, Newton Compton editori, 1994
da L'addormentatrice
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Incipit di alcune opere, Viaggio in Sicilia
Frasi sul mondo di Guy de Maupassant
da Viaggio in Sicilia, 1885
Viaggio in Sicilia
Origine: La vita errante, p. 42
Origine: La vita errante, pp. 45-46
Guy de Maupassant Frasi e Citazioni
“Si può amare un'amica come la propria moglie: la passione non ha legge.”
da Le tombali
Racconti fantastici
Origine: Una vita, p. 140
“Il passato mi attira, il presente mi atterrisce perché l'avvenire è la morte.”
da La chioma
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Origine: Dalla prefazione a Pietro e Giovanni
Origine: Citato in Quando Segesta affascinò Alberto Moravia http://palermo.repubblica.it/dettaglio/quando-segesta-affascino-alberto-moravia/1401211/2, Repubblica.it, 6 dicembre 2007.
da Lettera trovata indosso a un annegato
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da "Lui?"
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“I grandi artisti sono quelli che impongono all'umanità la loro particolare illusione.”
Origine: Da Pietro e Giovanni, Prefazione
da Lettera di un pazzo
Racconti fantastici
“Quello che amiamo con violenza finisce sempre con l'ucciderci.”
da La notte
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Origine: Viaggio in Sicilia, p. 125
Origine: Viaggio in Sicilia, p. 135
La vita errante
Origine: Citato in Rina La Mesa, Scrittori stranieri in Sicilia, Cappelli, 1961
da La vie errante; citato in Rina La Mesa, Scrittori stranieri in Sicilia, Cappelli, 1961
La vita errante
Origine: Da Una trovata, in Maupassant, La casa Tellier, traduzione di Mario Picchi, Sansoni, 1965
“Non c'è niente di peggio, quando s'è vecchi, che rimettere il naso nella propria giovinezza.”
Origine: Una vita, p. 137
da Lettera trovata indosso a un annegato
Racconti fantastici
Origine: Da Un caso di divorzio; in Tutti i racconti neri, fantastici e crudeli, a cura di Lucio Chiavarelli, Newton Compton editori, 1994
da "Solitudine"
Racconti fantastici
“La cosa più insignificante racchiude un po' d'ignoto. Troviamolo.”
Origine: Da Pietro e Giovanni, prefazione; citato in Elena Spagnol, Citazioni, Garzanti, 2003
Origine: La vita errante, pp. 42-43
Origine: La vita errante, pp. 43-44
Origine: Da L'orribile; in Le Horla e altri racconti dell'orrore, a cura di Lucio Chiavarelli, Newton Compton editori, 1994
Guy de Maupassant: Frasi in inglese
“A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”
Origine: Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques
Origine: The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”
As quoted in "Guy De Maupassant : A Study" by Pol Neveux, in Original Short Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3090

“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
"The Love of Long Ago"
Origine: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Contesto: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
Variant translation:
She was one of those pretty and charming girls, born by a blunder of destiny in a family of employees. She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, married by a man rich and distinguished; and she let them make a match for her with a little clerk in the Department of Education.
La Parure (The Necklace) (1884)
Contesto: The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks. She had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being known, understood, loved, married by any rich and distinguished man; so she let herself be married to a little clerk of the Ministry of Public Instruction.
Boule de Suif (1880)
Contesto: The same thing happens whenever the established order of things is upset, when security no longer exists, when all those rights usually protected by the law of man or of Nature are at the mercy of unreasoning, savage force. The earthquake crushing a whole nation under falling roofs; the flood let loose, and engulfing in its swirling depths the corpses of drowned peasants, along with dead oxen and beams torn from shattered houses; or the army, covered with glory, murdering those who defend themselves, making prisoners of the rest, pillaging in the name of the Sword, and giving thanks to God to the thunder of cannon — all these are appalling scourges, which destroy all belief in eternal justice, all that confidence we have been taught to feel in the protection of Heaven and the reason of man.
“The anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of the enemy.”
Boule de Suif (1880)
Contesto: Life seemed to have stopped short; the shops were shut, the streets deserted. Now and then an inhabitant, awed by the silence, glided swiftly by in the shadow of the walls. The anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of the enemy.
“For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town.”
Boule de Suif (1880)
Contesto: For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed through the town. They were mere disorganized bands, not disciplined forces. The men wore long, dirty beards and tattered uniforms; they advanced in listless fashion, without a flag, without a leader. All seemed exhausted, worn out, incapable of thought or resolve, marching onward merely by force of habit, and dropping to the ground with fatigue the moment they halted.
“At the end of a short time, once the first terror had subsided, calm was again restored.”
Boule de Suif (1880)
Contesto: At the end of a short time, once the first terror had subsided, calm was again restored. In many houses the Prussian officer ate at the same table with the family. He was often well-bred, and, out of politeness, expressed sympathy with France and repugnance at being compelled to take part in the war. This sentiment was received with gratitude; besides, his protection might be needful some day or other.
“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.”
Origine: The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
“One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.”
Origine: Une vie
“It is the encounters with people that make life worth living.”
Variante: It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.