A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
STENDHALBeauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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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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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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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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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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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