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Quotes from La Parure (The Necklace) — Guy de Maupassant

1850–1893 France

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The girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks.

La Parure (The Necklace) (1884)

What would have happened if she had not lost that necklace? Who knows? who knows? How strange and changeful is life! How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!

La Parure (The Necklace) (1884)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Guy de Maupassant (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.