The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
STENDHALThe English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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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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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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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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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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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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