The 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.
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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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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 boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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