This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
STENDHALThe 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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 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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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