Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
STENDHALNothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Every 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.
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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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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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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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