The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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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Our true passions are selfish.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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