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.
STENDHALThis religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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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 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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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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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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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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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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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