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.
STENDHALIf you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
More Stendhal Quotes
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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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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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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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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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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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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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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