It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
STENDHALBecause one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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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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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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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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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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