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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I 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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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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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 see but one rule: to be clear.
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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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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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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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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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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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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