“Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
"The Love of Long Ago"
Source: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Context: 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.
“There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.”
Source: Cosmopolis (1892), Ch. 5 "Countess Steno"
