What is really beautiful must always be true.
STENDHALPleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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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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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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The 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.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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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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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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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.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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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 wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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