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.
STENDHALIt is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
More Stendhal Quotes
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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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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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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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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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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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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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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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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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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