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.
STENDHALA 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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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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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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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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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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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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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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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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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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