“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.”

— Guy De Maupassant

As quoted in "Guy De Maupassant : A Study" by Pol Neveux, in Original Short Stories http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3090

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French writer 1850–1893

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