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.
STENDHALNever had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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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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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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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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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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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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