A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
STENDHALIt is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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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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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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