I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
STENDHALI love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
More Stendhal Quotes
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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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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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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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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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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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 call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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