Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
STENDHALSometimes 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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