But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
STENDHALLogic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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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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War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon’s proclamations.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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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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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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