Quotes about Stendhal

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

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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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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

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What is really beautiful must always be true.

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

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

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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

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

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

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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all...

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

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

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