The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
STENDHALI see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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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 wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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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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