“The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.”

— Guy De Maupassant

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

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French writer 1850–1893

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