To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
STENDHALLogic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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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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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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