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.
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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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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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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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