Spring appears and we are once more children.
STENDHALNever had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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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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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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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 more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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 worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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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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