Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
STENDHALPrudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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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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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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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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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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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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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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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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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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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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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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