One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
Interpretation
True beauty is rooted in authenticity and truth.
This quote by Stendhal asserts that what we perceive as genuine beauty is inseparable from truth. It suggests that true beauty is not merely a superficial or fleeting phenomenon but rather something that resonates deeply with reality, reflecting an authentic experience or essence.
In practice
In a discussion on the nature of art, one might use this quote to emphasize the connection between beauty and truth.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
I value the people who are willing to make themselves vulnerable and share work that is sensitive and maybe even hard to sing sometimes. Because that's the music that provides the most solace and solidarity to the world.
Jazz music is a language of the emotions.
I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to have a complicated moral philosophy. But a writer always tries, I think, to be a part of a solution, to understand a little about life and to pass this on.
Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago.
There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.
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