At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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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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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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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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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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