Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
STENDHALThere are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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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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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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