Quotes About Stendhal Love

#1. For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

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#2. Here are my politics: I love music and painting; a good book is an event for me; I'm going on forty-four. How much time do I have left? Fifteen, twenty, thirty years at most? Very well! I maintain that in thirty years ministers will be a bit shrewder, but just about as honest as they are today.

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#3. If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us

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#4. In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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#5. A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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#6. It is something like love at first sight. An instant reveals to you what your heart had needed for a long time without recognizing it.

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#7. Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

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#8. The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

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#9. The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

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#10. Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

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#11. Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

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#12. I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

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#13. 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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#14. The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

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#15. Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will

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#16. One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

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#17. Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

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#18. War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

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#19. Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

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#20. Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice.

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#21. In Paris, love is born of fiction.

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#22. It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

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#23. I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

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#24. According to Stendhal it takes about a year and a month to fall in love, all being well.

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#25. Love of the head has doubtless more intelligence than true love, but it only has moments of enthusiasm. It knows itself too well, it sits in judgement on itself incessantly; far from distracting thought, it is made by sheer force of thought.

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#26. The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

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#27. 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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#28. People happy in love have an air of intensity.

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#29. The suspicion that a rival is loved is painful enough already, but to have the love that he inspires in her confessed to one in detail by the woman whom one adores is without doubt the acme of suffering.

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#30. Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.

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#31. Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

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#32. Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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