I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
STENDHALPower, after love, is the first source of happiness.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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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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A good book is an event in my life.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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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 novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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