To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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