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One Quotes by Stendhal
- I see but one rule: to be clear.
- Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
- The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
- One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
- 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…
- The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
- She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
- 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…
- Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another…
- After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
- Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
- ...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
- One can acquire everything insolitude except character.
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