The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
STENDHALLife is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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