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.
STENDHALPleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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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 don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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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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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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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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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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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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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 great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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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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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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A good book is an event in my life.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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