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Stendhal
Stendhal
French Writer
Born: Jan 23, 1783
Died: Mar 23, 1842
Always Love Men Our Woman You
Related authors: Alfred de Musset Andre Maurois Francois de La Rochefoucauld Joseph Joubert Madame de Stael Roger de Rabutin Simone de Beauvoir Voltaire
Only great minds can afford a simple style. Stendhal
Great Simple Style Minds Great Minds Only Afford
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us. Stendhal
Love Me You Love Me Matter Both Does Anyway Us
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. Stendhal
Love Fears Our Pleasures Proportion Always
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. Stendhal
Sheep Own Tries Always Shepherd His Same Interests Persuade
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. Stendhal
Pleasure Spoiled Often Describing
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. Stendhal
Work Art Alone Man Joy Genius Water Will Hell High Finds He Come His Who
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. Stendhal
Work Politics Impossible Gun Something Like Concert Vulgar However Middle Literary Literary Work Which Shot Ignore
The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. Stendhal
Imitate Distance Ways Russians French Always Years Fifty
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. Stendhal
Love Hope Future You Better Lost Other Unlike Recollection Had Most Always Passions Than
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. Stendhal
Will Style Our Writers Nobility Make Years Which Forty Forty Years Now
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. Stendhal
Mathematics Hypocrisy Vagueness
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion. Stendhal
Women Emotion Lookout Always Women Are Any Eagerly
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. Stendhal
Art Science Neither Logic Dodge Nor
God's only excuse is that he does not exist. Stendhal
God Only He Excuse Does Exist
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. Stendhal
Me Woman Light Sweet Think Gave Musical Phrase Price Had Heard Owe Newly Moment Ever
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. Stendhal
People Made Reading Every Other Pleasure Horror Reminded Without Been Cannot Story Which Them Certain Certain Things Who Even Found Suffer Things
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. Stendhal
Worst Kind Avarice
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. Stendhal
Love Music Will Argument More Habit Governed Passions Cautious Intense Race Acquired Less
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice? Stendhal
Imitate Marvellous Had She How Any Caprice

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