I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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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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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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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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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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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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