"Suicides" is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant.
It was originally published on 29 August 1880 in the French newspaper Le Gaulois.
On 17 April 1883, it was published in Gil Blas under the pseudonym Maufrigneuse, and by other three periodicals, before being republished in the short story collection Les Sœurs Rondoli in 1884.
This man of fifty-seven describes his life: thirty years of boredom, always repeated gestures and loneliness.
That evening he starts a task constantly postponed, to store in his desk correspondence and memories of a lifetime.