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Stendhal
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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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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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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.
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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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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive.
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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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Love has always been the most important business in my life I should say the only one.
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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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.
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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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