What is really beautiful must always be true.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
StendhalStendhal Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
StendhalStendhal Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
StendhalStendhal 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.
StendhalStendhal If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
StendhalStendhal Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
StendhalStendhal Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
StendhalStendhal But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
StendhalStendhal People happy in love have an air of intensity.
StendhalStendhal This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
StendhalStendhal Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
StendhalStendhal Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
StendhalStendhal I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
StendhalStendhal Our true passions are selfish.
StendhalStendhal 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.
StendhalStendhal 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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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados Some women will have you look at life differently.
Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
Shilpa GoelShilpa Goel There is someone out there waiting to love you in all the ways you deserve.
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I know a beautiful soul when I feel one. The empath in me honors the authentic in you.
Melody LeeMelody Lee It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today
Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels You load your words as I bare my chest, and this will be the most beautiful death.
Nicole LyonsNicole Lyons O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we’re closer to God.
Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
Jack LondonJack London I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me.
Jack LondonJack London Everything which is good in life is dicey, including pretty girls.
Rakesh JhunjhunwalaRakesh Jhunjhunwala The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
Tom FordTom Ford