The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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This 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.
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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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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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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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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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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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