Spring appears and we are once more children.
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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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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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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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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