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.
STENDHALThe great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for 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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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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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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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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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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