I have a bad memory for facts.
STENDHALI have a bad memory for facts.
STENDHALTo be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
STENDHALLife is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
STENDHALThe 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.
STENDHALOne-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
STENDHALTo describe happiness is to diminish it.
STENDHALIn love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
STENDHALAfter moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
STENDHALThe shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
STENDHALIn 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.
STENDHALThe more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
STENDHALLove is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
STENDHALWhat is really beautiful must always be true.
STENDHALAlmost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
STENDHALThe boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
STENDHALThe 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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