It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
More Stendhal Quotes
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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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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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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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Love 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.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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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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