Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
STENDHALOne of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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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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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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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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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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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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I have a bad memory for facts.
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