Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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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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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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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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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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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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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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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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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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