Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
STENDHALLove has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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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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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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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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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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