Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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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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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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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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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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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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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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