A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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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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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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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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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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