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Stendhal Quotes

«Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one»
Author: Stendhal
«I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.»
Author: Stendhal | Keywords: musical, musical phrase, newly, phrase
«The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent»
Author: Stendhal | About: History | Keywords: historian, qualification
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Stendhal | About: Fashion | Keywords: befit, befits, befitting, fashionable
«The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.»
Author: Stendhal | About: Passion | Keywords: acquired, cautious, governed, intense, reasoned
«She had caprices of a marvelous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?»
«It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.»
Author: Stendhal | Keywords: nobility, unreadable
«A novel is a mirror carried along a main road»
Author: Stendhal | Keywords: main road
«A forty year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.»
Author: Stendhal | Keywords: old woman

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