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.
STENDHALEvery 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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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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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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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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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