Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
STENDHALSigns cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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