It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
STENDHALA woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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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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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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