Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
STENDHALLove is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
More Stendhal Quotes
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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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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Far less envy in America than in France.
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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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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
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