Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Now 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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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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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 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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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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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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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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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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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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