It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
STENDHALIn 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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To 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.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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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.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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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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