Guy de Maupassant Quote

We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and you will be powerless. Money? What for? To gratify your desires. Glory? What coems after it all? Death! Death alone is certain.

Bel ami; or, The history of a scoundrel, a novel. Yvette (ed. 1903)