The difference breeds hatred.
STENDHALNow 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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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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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