Stendhal Quotes
Stendhal Quotes
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
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God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
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If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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- 11
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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- 12
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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- 13
Our true passions are selfish.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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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.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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- 18
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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- 19
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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- 20
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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- 22
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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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- 24
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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