I see but one rule: to be clear.
STENDHALLogic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
More Stendhal Quotes
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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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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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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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The difference breeds hatred.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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