Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
STENDHALIn 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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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 English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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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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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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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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