I have an immoderate passion for water; for.... : Quote by Guy de Maupassant

“ I have an immoderate passion for water; for the sea, though so vast, so restless, so beyond one's comprehension; for rivers, beautiful, yet fugitive and elusive; but especially for marshes, teeming with all that mysterious life of the creatures that haunt them. A marsh is a whole world within a world, a different world, with a life of its own, with its own permanent denizens, its passing visitors, its voices, its sounds, its own strange mystery. ”

Guy de Maupassant
  • From : The House of Madame Tellier and Other Stories
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