Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
STENDHALI used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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