Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
STENDHALEvery true passion thinks only of itself.
More Stendhal Quotes
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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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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