A good book is an event in my life.
STENDHALTo seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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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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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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