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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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Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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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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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
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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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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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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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