The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
STENDHALAt a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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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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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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