If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
STENDHALPrudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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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 worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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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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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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A good book is an event in my life.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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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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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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