I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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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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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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