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.
STENDHALYour career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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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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Our true passions are selfish.
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