Why not make an end of it all? My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings. What is death? A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
STENDHALIf you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
More Stendhal Quotes
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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God’s only excuse is that he does not exist.
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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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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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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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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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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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