Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
STENDHALA 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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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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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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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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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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