God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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More Stendhal Quotes
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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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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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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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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