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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
Stendhal
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Stendhal
Age: 59 †
Born: 1783
Born: January 23
Died: 1842
Died: March 23
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Marie-Henri Beyle
Henri Beyle
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
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Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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