After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
STENDHALLove has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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