It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
STENDHALThe more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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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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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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