This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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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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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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