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.
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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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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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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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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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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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.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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