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More Quotes by Stendhal
I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
What is the use of a love that makes one yawn? One might as well take to religion.
Old age is nothing but the absence of madness, the loss of illusion and passion.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
There's one convenience about absolute power, that it sanctifies everything in the eyes of the people.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.