A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
STENDHALWhen you want to court a woman, court her sister first
More Stendhal Quotes
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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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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I 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.
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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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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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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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