The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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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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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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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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