"Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Art, Music, Healing, Comfort, Emotion

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Art, Music, Experience, Truth, Life

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now."

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"This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom."

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"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness."

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"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 - as a luxury befitting a young man."

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"If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

"History develops, art stands still."

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

"Music heals all forms of misery."

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

Explore more quotes by Stendhal

"It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now."

"This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom."

"A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness."

"Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge."

"To describe happiness is to diminish it."

"If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us."

"One can acquire everything in solitude except character."

"People happy in love have an air of intensity."

"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 - as a luxury befitting a young man."

"If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured."