One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
More Stendhal Quotes
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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