In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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More Stendhal Quotes
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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.
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