After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
More Stendhal Quotes
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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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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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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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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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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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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