The difference breeds hatred.
STENDHALThe first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
More Stendhal Quotes
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Our true passions are selfish.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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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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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.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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