A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
STENDHALBut, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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 only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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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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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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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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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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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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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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 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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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