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.
STENDHALI have a bad memory for facts.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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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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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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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main 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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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