Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
STENDHALThe 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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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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 first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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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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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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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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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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