When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
STENDHALIt is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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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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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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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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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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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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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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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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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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