When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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