Stendhal Quotes

French - Writer January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

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

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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.

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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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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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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

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