Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
STENDHALLove is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
More Stendhal Quotes
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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.
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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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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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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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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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