Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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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A good book is an event in my life.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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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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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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