To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
STENDHALWomen are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
More Stendhal Quotes
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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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A good book is an event in my life.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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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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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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