It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
STENDHALWhen you want to court a woman, court her sister first
More Stendhal Quotes
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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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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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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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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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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