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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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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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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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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