Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
STENDHALI used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A good book is an event in my life.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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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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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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A 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.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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