War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
STENDHALPolitics 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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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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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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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.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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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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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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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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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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