People happy in love have an air of intensity.
STENDHALA good book is an event in my life.
More Stendhal Quotes
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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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 more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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