Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
STENDHALYour career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
STENDHALOn a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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.
STENDHALFaith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
STENDHALPower, after love, is the first source of happiness.
STENDHALThe ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
STENDHALNapoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
STENDHALI call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
STENDHALIt is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
STENDHALWhen a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
STENDHALA good book is an event in my life.
STENDHALLife is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
STENDHALMan is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
STENDHALThe 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.
STENDHALThe Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
STENDHALLove has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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