Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
STENDHALMathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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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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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.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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