One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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More Stendhal Quotes
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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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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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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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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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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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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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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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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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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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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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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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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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