I have a bad memory for facts.
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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of 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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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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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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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