Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
STENDHALThe more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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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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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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