The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
STENDHALPeople who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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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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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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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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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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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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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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