Stendhal Quotes - Page 3

• Las mujeres siempre están atentas a cualquier emoción.

  Stendhal

  Mujeres, Emoción

  Stendhal (1967). "Sobre el amor"

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• Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

  Stendhal

  Promesa

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

  Stendhal

  Pleasure, Proportion

  Stendhal (1915). “On Love”

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• If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.

  Stendhal

  Witty, Character, Thinking

  Stendhal (1955). "Los diarios privados de Stendhal [seud.]".

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• A good book is an event in my life.

  Stendhal

  Book, Writing, Events

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

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  Selfishness, Desert, Fool

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.331, Tyché

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• A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

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  Men, Imagination, Half

  Stendhal (2015). “The Charterhouse of Parma”, p.190, Booklassic

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• Las personas felices en el amor tienen un aire de intensidad.

  Stendhal

  Love, Heart, Air

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• La tiranía de la opinión pública (¡y qué opinión!) es tan fatua en las pequeñas ciudades de Francia como en los Estados Unidos de América.

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  America, United States, Public Opinion

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.

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  Eye, Mirrors, Blue

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• The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

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  Beautiful, Art, Memories

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• I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.

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  Clever, People, Energy

  Stendhal (2015). “Armance”, p.72, Booklassic

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• The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

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  Firsts, Ability, Historian

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• There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.

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  Expression, Law, Suffering

  "Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)". Book by Stendhal (Volume II, Chapter XLIV), November 1830.

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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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  Men, Giving, Action

  Stendhal, Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff (1927). “On Love”

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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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  Important, Should

  "La Vie d'Henri Brulard (The Life of Henry Brulard)". Book by Stendhal, 1890.

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• If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

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  Men, Thinking, Ruins

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.50, World Classic

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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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  Love, Broken Heart, Passion

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

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  Success, Calling, World

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.51, World Classic

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• Nada es tan horrible como una moda obsoleta.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Obsolete, Hideous

  Stendhal (1967). "Sobre el amor"

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• An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

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  Play, Tables, Pistols

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.440, Tyché

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• A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded.
  It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.

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  Air, Hands, Want Something

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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  Men, Years, Youth

  "The Charterhouse of Parma". Book by Stendhal, Ch. 23, 1839.

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• If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.

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  God, Christian, Believe

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.528, World Classic

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• Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.

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  Impact, Soul, Mind

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