People happy in love have an air of intensity.
STENDHALIt is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
More Stendhal Quotes
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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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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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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