An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
STENDHALLove is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Our true passions are selfish.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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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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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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