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.
STENDHALLove 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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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 worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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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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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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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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