A good book is an event in my life.
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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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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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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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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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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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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
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To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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