Far less envy in America than in France.
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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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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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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