I have a bad memory for facts.
STENDHALThe shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
More Stendhal Quotes
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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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 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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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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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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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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