It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
STENDHALIt is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
More Stendhal Quotes
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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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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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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