Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
STENDHALFar less envy in America than in France.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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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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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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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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Our true passions are selfish.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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