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More Quotes by Stendhal
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.
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.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.
Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
