Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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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 first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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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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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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