I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
STENDHALOne of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
More Stendhal Quotes
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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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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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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