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Stendhal QUOTES

  • God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

  • Only great minds can afford a simple style.

  • Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

  • The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.



  • Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

  • I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

  • Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

  • The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

  • 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 good book is an event in my life.

  • The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

  • 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.

  • If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

  • Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

  • Our true passions are selfish.

  • Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.


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