Stendhal quotes
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“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
-- StendhalSource : "De l'Amour" fragment 1 (1822)
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“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”
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“Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.”
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“People happy in love have an air of intensity.”
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“A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.”
-- StendhalSource : Stendhal (2003). “The Red and the Black”, p.11, Modern Library
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“Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.”
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“All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.”
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“Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.”
-- StendhalSource : Stendhal's journal entry, December 10, 1801.
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“Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.”
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“To describe happiness is to diminish it.”
-- StendhalSource : Stendhal (1955). “The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]”
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“A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.”
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“Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.”
-- StendhalSource : "De L'Amour" (On Love) by Stendhal, (Ch. 17, footnote), 1822.
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“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.”
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“The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.”
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“If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.”
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“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.”
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“To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.”
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“Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.”
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“Only great minds can afford a simple style.”
-- StendhalSource : Stendhal (1967). “On Love”
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“The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.”
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“Women prefer emotions to reasoning.”
-- StendhalSource : Stendhal (1967). “On Love”
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“One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.”
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