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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#amen #humbly #instead #kept #know

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it. ↗

— Frank Stella

#art #artist #best #body #complete

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness. ↗

— Stendhal

#after #first #happiness #love #source

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. ↗

— Stendhal

#less #more #pleases #profoundly

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story. ↗

— Stendhal

#cannot #certain #certain things #even #every

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#drop #go #going #hat #however

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. ↗

— Stendhal

#earth #events #french #least #most

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. ↗

— Stendhal

#argument #cautious #governed #habit #intense

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#each #his #own #probably #sits

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#according #everyone #height #line #right