Our true passions are selfish.
STENDHALOur true passions are selfish.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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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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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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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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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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