Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
STENDHALIt is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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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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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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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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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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