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.
STENDHALThe idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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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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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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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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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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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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