Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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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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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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