If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
STENDHALGod’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
More Stendhal Quotes
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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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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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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