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.
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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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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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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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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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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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