When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
STENDHALOn a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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A good book is an event in my life.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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