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Stendhal Inspirational Quotes (80)

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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Love is like fever it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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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.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.
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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.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life I should say the only one.
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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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A good book is an event in my life.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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