Every true passion thinks only of itself.
STENDHALAfter moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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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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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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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