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Monday, August 5, 2013

Guy de Maupassant

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

“And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.”

- Guy de Maupassant, born 5 August 1850.

Popular 19th-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents.

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