Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
STENDHALWhat is really beautiful must always be true.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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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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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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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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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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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The difference breeds hatred.
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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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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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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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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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