Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
STENDHALTo be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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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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 only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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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A good book is an event in my life.
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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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