Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
STENDHALEvery true passion thinks only of itself.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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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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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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