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.
STENDHALPolitics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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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 man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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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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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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