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.
STENDHALThe Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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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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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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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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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 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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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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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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