Stendhal - Love Quotes

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

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Were I to buy this life of pleasure and this only chance at happiness with a few little dangers, where would be the harm? And wouldn't it still be fortunate to find a weak excuse to give her proof of my love?

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If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.

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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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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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A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will.... there are no age limits for love.

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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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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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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 a 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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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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Woman is a delightful musical instrument, of which love is the bow, and man the artist.

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I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, because it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness, my two bêtes noires.

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

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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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The count had reached his fifties: a cruel word whose resonance can perhaps be fully appreciated only by a man desperately in love.

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The only passion that has outlived all the rest is love of money.

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