I have a bad memory for facts.
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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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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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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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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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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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
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