Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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 novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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