Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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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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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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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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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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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A good book is an event in my life.
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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 a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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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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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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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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