Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
STENDHALThe man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation.
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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 very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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Far less envy in America than in France.
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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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I see but one rule: to be clear.
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The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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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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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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