Stendhal Quotes - Page 2

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• What is really beautiful must always be true.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Being True

  Stendhal (2015). “Armance”, p.51, Booklassic

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• Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

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  Beauty, Men, Passionate Love

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• Every true passion thinks only of itself.

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  Passion, Thinking, Very True

  Le Rouge et le Noir bk. 2, ch. 1 (1830)

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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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  Love, Heart, Doe

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• It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

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  Heart, Self, Enlightenment

  Stendhal (2015). “Amarance”, p.44, Stendhal

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• Our true passions are selfish.

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  Selfish, Passion, True Passion

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.145, World Classic

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• A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

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  Love, Positive, Valentines Day

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

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  Pleasure, Spoiled, Describing

  Stendhal (1955). “The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]”

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• The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

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  Boredom, Unhappiness

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• There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

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  Style, Vision

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• 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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  Leadership, Art, Men

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• Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

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  Avarice Greed, Morality, Kind

  Stendhal (1950*). “Stendhal on Love”

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• ...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

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  Mind, Genius, Ruts

  Stendhal (1969). “Red and black: a new translation, backgrounds and sources, criticism”

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• Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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  Math, Hypocrisy, Vagueness

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• The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world

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  Thinking, People, Insulting

  Stendhal (1975). “Memoirs of an egotist”, Chatto & Windus

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

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  Please

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• Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

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  Love, Age, Fever

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

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  Power, Love Is, Firsts

  Stendhal (1916). “On Love”

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• I see but one rule: to be clear.

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  Writing, Clear

  Stendhal (1925). “The Charterhouse of Parma”

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• I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.

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  Wisdom, Ugly, Enough

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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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  Life, Men, Vanity

  Stendhal, Richard Howard, Michel Deon (1988). “The Pink & The Green: Followed by Mina De Vanghel”, p.89, New Directions Publishing

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• A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

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  Would Be, Matter, Fool

  Stendhal (2015). “Armance”, p.20, Booklassic

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

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  Witty, Character, Thinking

  Stendhal (1955). “The private diaries of Stendhal [pseud.]”

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• The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.

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  Boredom, Married, Inevitable

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.168, World Classic

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• Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

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  Women, Emotion

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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