Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
STENDHALA wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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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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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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