I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
STENDHALSigns cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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