Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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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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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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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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