It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
STENDHALIn love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
More Stendhal Quotes
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There is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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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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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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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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