Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
STENDHALI have a bad memory for facts.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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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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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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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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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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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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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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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.
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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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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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