On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
STENDHALPeople happy in love have an air of intensity.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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A good book is an event in my life.
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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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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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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.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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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 see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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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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