God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
STENDHALPeople who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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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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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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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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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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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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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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