Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
STENDHALOne-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
More Stendhal Quotes
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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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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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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