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.
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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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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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 a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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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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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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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.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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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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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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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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