Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
STENDHALLove is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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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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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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