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• This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

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  Blessing, Boredom, Age

  Stendhal, Joan Charles (1949). “Stendhal's The Red and the Black”

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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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• To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

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  Struggle, Vanity, Class

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

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  Friendship, Illusion

  Stendhal (2015). “Armance”, p.177, Booklassic

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• To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

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  Respect, Men, Sight

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.

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  Marriage, Heart, Boredom

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

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• This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

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  Thinking, Unusual Things, Self

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• People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

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  Reading, People, Suffering

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.192, Tyché

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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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  Gun, Politics, Impossible

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• The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight.

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  Soul, Delight, Firsts

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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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• When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.

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  Running, Women, Two

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.80, World Classic

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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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• Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

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  Book, Ignorance, Thinking

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• It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

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  Husband, Romantic Love, Lovers

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

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  Pleasure, Sample, Ifs

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• I have a bad memory for facts.

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  Memories, Facts, Bad Memories

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• On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.

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  Morning, Winter, Soul

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• The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

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  Fashion, Horse, Men

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

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  Mind, Phosphorus, Knows

  "Histoire de la Peinture en Italie", Chapter XCI, p. 209 (Ed. 1854), as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 787-90, 1922.

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• People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.

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  Family, Heart, Self

  Stendhal (1986). “Armance”, Dufour Editions

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• It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.

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  Interesting, Landscape, Moral

  Stendhal (1962). “Memoirs of a tourist [by] Stendhal [pseud.] Translated by Allan Seager: With illus. by Roger Barr”

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• In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.

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  Ideas, Judging, Matter

  "De L'Amour (On Love)". Book by Stendhal ("Fragments"), 1822.

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• Why not make an end of it all?... My life is a succession of griefs and bitter feelings.... What is death?... A very small matter,when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

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  Suicide, Grief, Feelings

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• A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

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