Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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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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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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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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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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