The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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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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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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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Our true passions are selfish.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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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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 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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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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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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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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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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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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 think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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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