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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul. — Stendhal

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. — Stendhal

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? — Stendhal

A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride. — Stendhal

Every true passion thinks only of itself. — Stendhal

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. — Stendhal

Each man for himself in that desert of egoism which is called life. — Stendhal

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. — Stendhal

It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest. — Stendhal

To write a book is to risk being shot at in public. — Stendhal

To the Happy Few! — Stendhal

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels. — Stendhal

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. — Stendhal

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation. — Stendhal

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. — Stendhal

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. — Stendhal

An insane self-consciousness made him commit thousands of blunders. — Stendhal

His whole life had been merely a long preparation for misfortune, — Stendhal

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations. — Stendhal

The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. — Stendhal

Alas! our frailty is the cause, not we! For such as we are made of, such we be. Twelfth Night It — Stendhal

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. — Stendhal

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. — Stendhal

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained. — Stendhal

Has he written to you?'
'He writes frequently.'
'Shew me his letters this instant, I order you'; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature. — Stendhal

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought. — Stendhal

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process. — Stendhal

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind. — Stendhal

On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul. — Stendhal

I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly. — Stendhal

According to Stendhal it takes about a year and a month to fall in love, all being well. — Helen Oyeyemi

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts. — Stendhal

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will — Stendhal

In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way. — Stendhal

Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice. — Stendhal

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. — Stendhal

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. — Stendhal

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. — Stendhal

A novel is a mirror walking along a main road. — Stendhal

Your water does not refresh me, said the thirsty genie. Yet it is the coolest well in all the Diar Bekir. — Stendhal

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. — Stendhal

Only great minds can afford a simple style. — Stendhal

In Paris, love is born of fiction. — Stendhal

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. — Stendhal

Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student. — Stendhal

It is something like love at first sight. An instant reveals to you what your heart had needed for a long time without recognizing it. — Stendhal

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America. — Stendhal

A novel is a mirror travelling down the road. — Stendhal

People happy in love have an air of intensity. — Stendhal

Stendhal had said a Frenchman was an Italian in a bad mood. — Edmund White

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch? — Stendhal

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place? — Stendhal

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words. — Stendhal

The only way of touching a heart is to wound it — Stendhal

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth. — Stendhal

Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise. — Stendhal

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God. — Stendhal

It was the destiny of Napoleon - would it one day be his? — Stendhal

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity. — Stendhal

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure. — Stendhal

The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world — Stendhal

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness. — Stendhal

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. — Stendhal

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. — Stendhal

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action. — Stendhal

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. — Stendhal

Could anything possibly be more humorous than believing in the depth or in the depravity of the Parisian character? — Stendhal

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion. — Stendhal

To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored. — Stendhal

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. — Stendhal

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. — Stendhal

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness. — Stendhal

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal

I see but one rule: to be clear. — Stendhal

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. — Stendhal

They can only touch the heart by bruising it. — Stendhal

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it. — Stendhal

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. — Stendhal

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. — Stendhal

To describe happiness is to diminish it. — Stendhal

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. — Stendhal

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. — Stendhal

Beauty is the promise of happiness. — Stendhal

Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician. — Stendhal

Spring appears and we are once more children. — Stendhal

The 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. — Stendhal

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. — Stendhal

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing? — Stendhal

I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place. — Francoise Sagan

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert. — Stendhal

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery. — Stendhal

I have a bad memory for facts. — Stendhal

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing. — Stendhal

Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart. — Stendhal

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. — Stendhal

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. — Stendhal

Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us — Stendhal

The idea of most use to tyrants is that of God, — Stendhal