If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
STENDHALLife is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Our true passions are selfish.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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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 only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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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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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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