Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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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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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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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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