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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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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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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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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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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Our true passions are selfish.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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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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