After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
STENDHALI call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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 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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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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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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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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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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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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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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