I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
STENDHALLife is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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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.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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A 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.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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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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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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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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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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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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