It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
STENDHALI see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
More Stendhal Quotes
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In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
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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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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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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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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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