True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
STENDHALTo find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
More Stendhal Quotes
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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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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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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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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