It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
STENDHALA wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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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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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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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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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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