Guy de Maupassant Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: August 5, 1850 - July 6, 1893
Birthday: August 5
Death: July 6
How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.
source: Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James”, p.1740, e-artnow
topic: Mind, Facts, Causes, Unbalanced, Supernatural Powers
