The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
STENDHALPolitics 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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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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A good book is an event in my life.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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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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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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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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