Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
STENDHALA novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
More Stendhal Quotes
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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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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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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