Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
STENDHALTo describe happiness is to diminish it.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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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.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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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.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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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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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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