Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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Sometimes 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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Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
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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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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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