Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
STENDHALI think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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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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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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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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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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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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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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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 very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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