People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
STENDHALPeople who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
STENDHALBeauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
STENDHALIt is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
STENDHALLife is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
STENDHALLove is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
STENDHALBecause one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
STENDHALAll religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
STENDHALIt is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
STENDHALBut, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
STENDHALGod’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
STENDHALEvery 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.
STENDHALThe idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
STENDHALI think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
STENDHALSpring appears and we are once more children.
STENDHALOur true passions are selfish.
STENDHALThe more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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