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.
STENDHALSometimes 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.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A good book is an event in my life.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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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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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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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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