Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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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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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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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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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Our true passions are selfish.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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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 forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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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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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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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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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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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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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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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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