When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
STENDHALThe sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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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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