I see but one rule: to be clear.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
More Stendhal Quotes
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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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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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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