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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  (Stendhal Quotes) 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 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  (Stendhal Quotes) 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  (Stendhal Quotes) This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom  (Stendhal Quotes) If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us  (Stendhal Quotes) If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured  (Stendhal Quotes) Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one  (Stendhal Quotes) All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few  (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 phrase  (Stendhal Quotes) It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now  (Stendhal Quotes) People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story  (Stendhal Quotes) She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?  (Stendhal Quotes) The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth  (Stendhal Quotes) The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man  (Stendhal Quotes) The more a race is governed by it's passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be it's love of music  (Stendhal Quotes) The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same  (Stendhal Quotes) 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  (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  (Stendhal Quotes) Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life  (Stendhal Quotes) I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself  (Stendhal Quotes) 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  (Stendhal Quotes) Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar  (Stendhal Quotes) But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure  (Stendhal Quotes) One of the traits of genius is not to drag it's thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds  (Stendhal Quotes) Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity  (Stendhal Quotes) 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  (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  (Stendhal Quotes) 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  (Stendhal Quotes) A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he  (Stendhal Quotes)
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