Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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In 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.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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