If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
STENDHALAfter moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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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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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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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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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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