When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
STENDHALIn matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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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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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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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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