When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
STENDHALPeople 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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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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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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