Every true passion thinks only of itself.
STENDHALWomen prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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 think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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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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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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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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In 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.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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