Stendhal Quotes and Quotations
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. One can acquire everything in solitude except character. Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion. The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. One can acquire everything in solitude but character. If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion. To describe happiness is to diminish it. The only unhappiness is a life of boredom. Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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