People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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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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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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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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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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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