A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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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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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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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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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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