The 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.
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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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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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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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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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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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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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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To 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.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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