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.
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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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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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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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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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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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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