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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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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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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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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