This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
STENDHALThis is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
STENDHALBeauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
STENDHALThe more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
STENDHALThere are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
STENDHALIt is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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.
STENDHALFaith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
STENDHALWar was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
STENDHALIf you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
STENDHALWhen a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
STENDHALWounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
STENDHALEvery great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
STENDHALThe first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
STENDHALLife is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
STENDHALIn matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
STENDHALI see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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