To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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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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I have a bad memory for facts.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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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 only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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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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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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A good book is an event in my life.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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