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.
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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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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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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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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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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A good book is an event in my life.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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