Quotes about Stendhal

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

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Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the...

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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable...

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

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If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both...

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God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

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Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

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