Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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It 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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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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