If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
STENDHAL
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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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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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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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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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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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