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Stendhal quotes: A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul. A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
Stendhal quotes: After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne. After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
Stendhal quotes: To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
Stendhal quotes: Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
Stendhal quotes: She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
Stendhal quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Every true passion thinks only of itself. Every true passion thinks only of itself.
Stendhal quotes: But passion most dissembles, yet betrays, Even by its darkness; as the blackest sky Foretells the heaviest tempest. Don Juan, I. 73 But passion most dissembles, yet betrays, Even by its darkness; as the blackest sky Foretells the heaviest tempest. Don Juan, I. 73
Stendhal quotes: Each man for himself in that desert of egoism which is called life. Each man for himself in that desert of egoism which is called life.
Stendhal quotes: It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest. It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
Stendhal quotes: Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels. Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
Stendhal quotes: One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion. One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
Stendhal quotes: It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation. It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.
Stendhal quotes: The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Stendhal quotes: One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds. One of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
Stendhal quotes: An insane self-consciousness made him commit thousands of blunders. An insane self-consciousness made him commit thousands of blunders.
Stendhal quotes: Only great minds can afford a simple style. Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal quotes: 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. 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 quotes: People happy in love have an air of intensity. People happy in love have an air of intensity.
Stendhal quotes: 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. 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 quotes: It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Stendhal quotes: Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch? Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
Stendhal quotes: Your water does not refresh me, said the thirsty genie. Yet it is the coolest well in all the Diar Bekir. Your water does not refresh me, said the thirsty genie. Yet it is the coolest well in all the Diar Bekir.
Stendhal quotes: The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Stendhal quotes: 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. 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 quotes: A novel is a mirror walking along a main road. A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.
Stendhal quotes: In Paris, love is born of fiction. In Paris, love is born of fiction.
Stendhal quotes: Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Stendhal quotes: Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
Stendhal quotes: A novel is a mirror travelling down the road. A novel is a mirror travelling down the road.
Stendhal quotes: Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place? Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
Stendhal quotes: grotesque character of everyday occurrences conceals from one the real misery of passions. BARNAVE While grotesque character of everyday occurrences conceals from one the real misery of passions. BARNAVE While
Stendhal quotes: They can only touch the heart by bruising it. They can only touch the heart by bruising it.
Stendhal quotes: Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things. Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
Stendhal quotes: Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness. Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
Stendhal quotes: If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
Stendhal quotes: I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow. I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.
Stendhal quotes: Feminine delicacy was carried to excess in Mme de Renal. Feminine delicacy was carried to excess in Mme de Renal.
Stendhal quotes: Friendship has its illusions no less than love. Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Stendhal quotes: Misery destroys judgment. Misery destroys judgment.
Stendhal quotes: When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily. When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
Stendhal quotes: I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill. I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
Stendhal quotes: sound reasoning always gives offence. Julien's sound reasoning always gives offence. Julien's
Stendhal quotes: Alas! our frailty is the cause, not we! For such as we are made of, such we be. Twelfth Night It Alas! our frailty is the cause, not we! For such as we are made of, such we be. Twelfth Night It
Stendhal quotes: Women prefer emotions to reasoning. Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
Stendhal quotes: Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit. Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
Stendhal quotes: It seemed to Julian that there was far too much hair in his wig. It seemed to Julian that there was far too much hair in his wig.
Stendhal quotes: It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover. It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
Stendhal quotes: The only unhappiness is a life of boredom. The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
Stendhal quotes: When you want to court a woman, court her sister first When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
Stendhal quotes: I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself. I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
Stendhal quotes: I call 'crystallization' that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events. I call 'crystallization' that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
Stendhal quotes: His whole life had been merely a long preparation for misfortune, His whole life had been merely a long preparation for misfortune,
Stendhal quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action. Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
Stendhal quotes: Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Stendhal quotes: Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
Stendhal quotes: If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us
Stendhal quotes: Could anything possibly be more humorous than believing in the depth or in the depravity of the Parisian character? Could anything possibly be more humorous than believing in the depth or in the depravity of the Parisian character?
Stendhal quotes: Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise. Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise.
Stendhal quotes: The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God. The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
Stendhal quotes: It was the destiny of Napoleon - would it one day be his? It was the destiny of Napoleon - would it one day be his?
Stendhal quotes: Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity. Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
Stendhal quotes: But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure. But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
Stendhal quotes: The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
Stendhal quotes: The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
Stendhal quotes: The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Stendhal quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth. Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
Stendhal quotes: A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
Stendhal quotes: Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion. Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
Stendhal quotes: The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
Stendhal quotes: A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal quotes: Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness. Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
Stendhal quotes: At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
Stendhal quotes: I see but one rule: to be clear. I see but one rule: to be clear.
Stendhal quotes: The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
Stendhal quotes: Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
Stendhal quotes: I love her beauty, but I fear her mind. I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
Stendhal quotes: War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations. 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 quotes: The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
Stendhal quotes: 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 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 quotes: The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. 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 quotes: On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul. On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
Stendhal quotes: I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly. I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
Stendhal quotes: Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will
Stendhal quotes: A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Stendhal quotes: 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. 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 quotes: This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
Stendhal quotes: The only way of touching a heart is to wound it The only way of touching a heart is to wound it
Stendhal quotes: Beauty is the promise of happiness. Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Stendhal quotes: Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician. Without patience, without absence of anger, no one can be called a politician.
Stendhal quotes: Spring appears and we are once more children. Spring appears and we are once more children.
Stendhal quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
Stendhal quotes: A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it. A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
Stendhal quotes: Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert. Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
Stendhal quotes: I have a bad memory for facts. I have a bad memory for facts.
Stendhal quotes: I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing. I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
Stendhal quotes: Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart. Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart.

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