Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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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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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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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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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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