Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
STENDHALI love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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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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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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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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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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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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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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