I see but one rule: to be clear.
STENDHALWomen are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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