Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
STENDHALA forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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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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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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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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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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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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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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 idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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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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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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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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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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