A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
STENDHALThe worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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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 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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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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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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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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