The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
STENDHALOne-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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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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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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