She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
STENDHALI think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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