Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
STENDHALThe 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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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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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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