Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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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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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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