People happy in love have an air of intensity.
STENDHALPleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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