I have a bad memory for facts.
STENDHALI have a bad memory for facts.
STENDHALThe 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.
STENDHALTo seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
STENDHALI used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
STENDHALPerhaps 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.
STENDHALOnly great minds can afford a simple style.
STENDHALWhen intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
STENDHALPrudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
STENDHALI think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
STENDHALI do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
STENDHALIndeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
STENDHALA novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
STENDHALSigns cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
STENDHALMathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
STENDHALFaith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
STENDHALTo describe happiness is to diminish it.
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