People happy in love have an air of intensity.
STENDHALI love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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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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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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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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