The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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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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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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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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