Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
STENDHALNapoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
More Stendhal Quotes
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The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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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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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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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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