The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
STENDHALThis 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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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 is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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