Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
STENDHALThe great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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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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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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The 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.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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