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"22 Stendhal Quotes & Sayings

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Born: January 23, 1783. Died: March 23, 1842 | Writer |

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

Beauty Nothing Promise Happiness
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Religions Fear Cleverness Few
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Our true passions are selfish.

Our True Passion Selfish
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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

Styles Beauty Visions Happiness
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
One Acquire Solitude Character
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Small degree Hope Cause Love
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

Faith Fool Selfishness Life
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The only way of touching a heart is to wound it

Way Touching Heart Wound
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

Pleasures Love Proportion Fears
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Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will

Love Comes Independently Will
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What is really beautiful must always be true.

What Beautiful True
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Old age is nothing but the absence of madness, the loss of illusion and passion.

Old age Absence Illusion Passion
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind

Love Beauty Fear Mind
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it

Pleasure Spoiled Describing
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What is the use of a love that makes one yawn? One might as well take to religion.

Use Love Religion
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Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice.

Love Beautiful Brave Edge
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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion

Women Eagerly Lookout Emotion
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.

Friendship Illusions Love
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.

People Happy Love Intensity
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Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

Life Short Time Waste
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Misfortunes Life Wrong notions Things
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Shepherd Persuade Sheep Interests
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Stendhal Quotes & Sayings