Every true passion thinks only of itself.
STENDHALPeople 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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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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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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A good book is an event in my life.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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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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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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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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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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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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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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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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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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