People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
STENDHALShe had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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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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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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