A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
STENDHALTo seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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