It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
STENDHALNothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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