Our true passions are selfish.
STENDHALA novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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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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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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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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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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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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