There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
STENDHALIt 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.
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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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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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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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