The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
STENDHALAn 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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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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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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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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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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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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