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• Guy de Maupassant – Selected Writings of Guy de MaupassantIt is not exact to say that the lofty genius of De Maupassant was that of an absolutely sane man.
• We comprehend it to-day, and, on re-reading him, we find traces everywhere of his final malady.
• But it is exact to say that this wounded genius was, by a singular circumstance, the genius of a robust man.
• A physiologist would without doubt explain this anomaly by the coexistence of a nervous lesion, light at first, with a muscular, athletic temperament.
• Whatever the cause, the effect is undeniable.