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"Exalted by a sentiment of which she was proud, and that overcame all her arrogance, she was reluctant to let a moment of her life go by without occupying it with some remarkable deed."
Quote by -Stendhal
"C'est la violente impression du laid sur une �me faite pour aimer ce qui est beau."
Quote by -Stendhal
"...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds."
Quote by -Stendhal
"Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart."
Quote by -Stendhal
"A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul."
Quote by -Stendhal
"A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul."
Quote by -Stendhal
"I will never demean myself to speak about my courage," said Julien, coldly, "it would be mean to do so. Let the world judge by the facts."
Quote by -Stendhal
"Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise."
Quote by -Stendhal
"The suspicion that a rival is loved is painful enough already, but to have the love that he inspires in her confessed to one in detail by the woman whom one adores is without doubt the acme of suffering."
Quote by -Stendhal
"Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student."
Quote by -Stendhal
"L'amore � come la febbre, nasce e si spegne senza che la volont� vi abbia la pi� piccola parte."
Quote by -Stendhal
“What hits you affects you and wakes you up more then what pleases you.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
“A noble heart should not belie its thoughts; it wants to reveal itself even to its inmost depths. There everything is good, at least everything is human.”
Quote by -Michel Montaigne
"Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"(Love) walks up to you,and when it does, you need to recognize it for what it is and, perhaps more important, for what it might become."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"I can hurt myself more than anyone else can," she told her sister. "I can do it with my eyes closed."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too."
Quote by -Alice Hoffman
"Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember."
Quote by -Barbara Kingsolver
"But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run."
Quote by -Barbara Kingsolver