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.
STENDHALNow 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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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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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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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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A 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.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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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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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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