I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
STENDHALI have a bad memory for facts.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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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 love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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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 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 very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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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 the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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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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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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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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