Every true passion thinks only of itself.
STENDHALPeople 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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