I have a bad memory for facts.
STENDHALLogic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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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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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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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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