Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
STENDHALYour career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
STENDHALWho knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
STENDHALPolitics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
STENDHALThe shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
STENDHALAll religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
STENDHALThe sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
STENDHALI am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
STENDHALSpring appears and we are once more children.
STENDHALAlmost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
STENDHALThe first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
STENDHALThe 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.
STENDHALNapoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
STENDHALMan is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
STENDHALWomen prefer emotions to reasoning.
STENDHALA good book is an event in my life.
STENDHALA very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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