A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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