The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
STENDHALThe shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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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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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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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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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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