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Stendhal
Age: 59 †
Born: 1783
Born: January 23
Died: 1842
Died: March 23
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Marie-Henri Beyle
Henri Beyle
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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There is no such thing as natural law: this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.
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