People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his...

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

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

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

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something...

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something...

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

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

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are...

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

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

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or...

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the...

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the...

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.