Our true passions are selfish.
STENDHALWhy 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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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.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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