God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
STENDHALA novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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A good book is an event in my life.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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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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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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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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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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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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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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