Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
STENDHALA 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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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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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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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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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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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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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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