War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
STENDHALThe shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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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 good book is an event in my life.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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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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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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