Stendhal on desert
Stendhal121 quotes“Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.”
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
StendhalStendhal Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
StendhalStendhal In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
StendhalStendhal If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
StendhalStendhal Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
StendhalStendhal Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
StendhalStendhal But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
StendhalStendhal People happy in love have an air of intensity.
StendhalStendhal This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
StendhalStendhal Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
StendhalStendhal Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
StendhalStendhal I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
StendhalStendhal Our true passions are selfish.
StendhalStendhal A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
StendhalStendhal 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.
StendhalStendhal A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
Brennan ManningBrennan Manning There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
John VianneyJohn Vianney The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.
Miguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.
Graham GreeneGraham Greene On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.
Tom FordTom Ford A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie He was an ocean of pure love but after what he had to go through, now he’s a desert of hopeless romance.
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