French - Writer | January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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.
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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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Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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