A good book is an event in my life.
STENDHALPeople happy in love have an air of intensity.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Our true passions are selfish.
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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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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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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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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