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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Stendhal
Hypocrisy
Mathematics
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Stendhal
Fashion
Nothing
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
Stendhal
Love
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal
Style
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
Stendhal
Love
People
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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People
Horror
Pleasure
Reading
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Pleasure
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
Stendhal
Politics
Work
Literary
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
Stendhal
Weapons