A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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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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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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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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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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A good book is an event in my life.
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