One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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The 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.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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