A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

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  Our true passions are selfish.

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  Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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  The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

• Stendhal:

  If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

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  Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and h

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  This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

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  What is really beautiful must always be true.

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  People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror w

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  I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

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