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.
STENDHALA man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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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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