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.
STENDHALOn a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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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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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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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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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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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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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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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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