Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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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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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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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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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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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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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