The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
STENDHALThe 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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 French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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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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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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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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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 degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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