Only great minds can afford a simple style.
STENDHALThe English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
More Stendhal Quotes
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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The 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.
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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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