Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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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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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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