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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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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