After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
STENDHALAfter moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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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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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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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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