Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
STENDHALLove 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.
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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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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