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Type: Writer Quotes Category: French Writer Quotes Date of Birth: January 23, 1783 Date of Death: March 23, 1842 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Stendhal Related Authors: Voltaire Simone de Beauvoir Madame de Stael Francois de La Rochefoucauld Nicolas de Chamfort Louis-Ferdinand Celine Andre Maurois Georges Bataille |
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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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Stendhal A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. Stendhal All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. Stendhal Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit. Stendhal Friendship has its illusions no less than love. Stendhal God's only excuse is that he does not exist. Stendhal If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. Stendhal If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. Stendhal It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. Stendhal Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained. Stendhal Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. Stendhal Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. Stendhal Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. Stendhal Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery. Stendhal One can acquire everything in solitude - except character. Stendhal Only great minds can afford a simple style. Stendhal Our true passions are selfish. Stendhal People happy in love have an air of intensity. Stendhal People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. Stendhal Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. Stendhal |
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