If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
STENDHALBeauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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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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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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