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.
STENDHALSometimes 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.
STENDHALThe more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
STENDHALSigns cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
STENDHALI do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
STENDHALWhy not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
STENDHALBeauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
STENDHALPleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
STENDHALThere are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
STENDHALIndeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
STENDHALI call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
STENDHALA 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.
STENDHALLove has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
STENDHALAll religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
STENDHALOne can acquire everything in solitude except character.
STENDHALThe more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
STENDHALThe pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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