The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
STENDHALPeople 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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