To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
STENDHALIt is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
More Stendhal Quotes
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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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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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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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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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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