More quotes by Stendhal

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
"People happy in love have an air of intensity."
"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."
"God's only excuse is that he does not exist"
"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love"