This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
STENDHALA good book is an event in my life.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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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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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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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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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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Our true passions are selfish.
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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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