Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
STENDHALThe first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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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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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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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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One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You’re supposed to seem bored.
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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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Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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