When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
STENDHALI call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
More Stendhal Quotes
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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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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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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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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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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