Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) Quotes
Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal
Quotes to Explore
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
Victor Cousin
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
Zendaya
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
Felicia Day
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I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.
Damian Lewis
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The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
Bar Paly
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Die nächste Flut verwischt den Weg im Watt, und alles wird auf allen Seiten gleich; die kleine Insel draußen aber hat die Augen zu; verwirrend kreist der Deichum ihre Wohner, die in einem Schlaf geboren werden, drin sie viele Welten verwechseln schweigend, denn sie reden selten, und jeder Satz ist wie ein Epitaph
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
Elbert Hubbard
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You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lift miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day untouched, some old, lost sweet-tasting time.But there it was again, the girl's spreading bloodstain.
Colum McCann
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I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma - let him get off as he can.
Laurence Sterne
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Me hicieron de cien años algunos minutos que se quedaron conmigo, no cien años.
Antonio Porchia
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Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?
David Hunt
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When I moved from consumer banking to international banking, I thought I brought a lot of insights from India we could implement globally.
Chanda Kochhar
