It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
STENDHALI used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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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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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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