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.
STENDHALThe pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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