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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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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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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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