Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
STENDHALTo find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
More Stendhal Quotes
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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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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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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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