The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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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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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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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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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