She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
STENDHALA novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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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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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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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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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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