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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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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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