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Stendhal Quotes

Stendhal quotes

French Writer January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842

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An absence of mistrust is not enough; there must be a weariness of mistrusting, and, as it were, courage must be impatient with the hazards of life. You are unconsciously bored by living without loving, and convinced in spite of yourself by the examples of others. You have overcome all life's fears, and are no longer content with the gloomy happiness which pride affords: you have conceived an ideal without knowing it. Stendhal
Stendhal quote: "The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when..."
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. Stendhal
Stendhal quote: "Love has always been the most important business in my life, I..."
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. Stendhal
Stendhal quote: "Friendship has its illusions no less than love."
Friendship has its illusions no less than love. Stendhal
Stendhal quote: "Power, after love, is the first source of happiness."
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. Stendhal
Stendhal quote: "People happy in love have an air of intensity."
People happy in love have an air of intensity. Stendhal
Stendhal quote: "I love her beauty, but I fear her mind."
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind. Stendhal
Stendhal quote: "To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time..."
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. Stendhal
Stendhal quote: "A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved..."
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. Stendhal
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. Stendhal
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
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 born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought. Stendhal
Stendhal quote: "A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth..."
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. Stendhal
For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool? Stendhal

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