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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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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 call crystallization that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
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I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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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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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
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