Quote of the Day

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”

- Guy de Maupassant

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.