Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
STENDHALI have a bad memory for facts.
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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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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People 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.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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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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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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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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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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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s 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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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