A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
STENDHALThe first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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