The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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 first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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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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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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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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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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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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