Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
STENDHAL
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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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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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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