Stendhal

Stendhal

"There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness."
36 Quotes
"There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness."
Stendhal Love
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."
Stendhal The Red and the Black
"A good book is an event in my life."
Stendhal The Red and the Black
"Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?"
Stendhal The Red and the Black
"Mathilde made an effort to use the more intimate form; she was evidently more attentive to this unusual way of speaking than to what she was saying. This use of the singular form, stripped of the tone of affection, ceased, after a moment, to afford Julien any pleasure, he was astonished at the absence of happiness; finally, in order to feel it, he had recourse to his reason. He saw himself highly esteemed by this girl who was so proud, and never bestowed unrestricted praise; by this line of reasoning he arrived at a gratification of his self-esteem."
Stendhal The Red and the Black
"Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought."
Stendhal The Red and the Black
"The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly."
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"Friendship has its illusions no less than love."
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"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."
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"Only great minds can afford a simple style."
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"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
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"The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears."
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"Power, after love, is the first source of happiness."
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"The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music."
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"True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things."
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"Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge."
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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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"People happy in love have an air of intensity."
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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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"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."
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