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.
STENDHALTo find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Politics 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.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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