An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
STENDHALA woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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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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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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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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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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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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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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