A good book is an event in my life.
STENDHALA good book is an event in my life.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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