She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
STENDHALBeauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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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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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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