People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
STENDHALA very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
More Stendhal Quotes
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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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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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 boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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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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