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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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Love has always been the most important business in my life I should say the only one.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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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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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction, said Mathilde. It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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A melancholy air can never be the right thing what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded. It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
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The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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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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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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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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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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