Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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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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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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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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Our true passions are selfish.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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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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