I see but one rule: to be clear.
STENDHALA wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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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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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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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