If you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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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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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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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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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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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 difference breeds hatred.
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