Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
STENDHALThe worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
More Stendhal Quotes
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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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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I have a bad memory for facts.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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