I have a bad memory for facts.
STENDHALLife is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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