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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

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

— Stendhal

#after #first #happiness #love #source

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

— Stendhal

#age #boredom #cure #curse #even

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

I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual. ↗

— Andy Garcia

#individual #staunch

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. ↗

— Stendhal

#kind #worst

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