Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
STENDHALThe 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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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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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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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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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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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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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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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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