All 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.
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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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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
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If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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