Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
STENDHALThe worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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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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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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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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