Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
STENDHALThe English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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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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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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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 like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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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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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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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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