A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
STENDHALLogic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A good book is an event in my life.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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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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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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