“A good book is an event in my life.”
“A good book is an event in my life.”
“God's only excuse is that he does not exist”
“Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.”
“Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.”
“She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?”
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“A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.”
“A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.”
“It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.”
“Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.”
“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”
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“This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.”
“Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.”
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“Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.”
“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.”
“Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.”
“Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.”
“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
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“The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.”
“Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.”
“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love”
“A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.”
“Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.”
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“If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.”
“Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.”
“The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.”
“Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.”
“The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.”
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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.”
“Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.”
“Only great minds can afford a simple style.”
“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?”
“Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.”
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“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.”
“To describe happiness is to diminish it.”
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