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People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

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Stendhal
Age: 59 †
Born: 1783
Born: January 23
Died: 1842
Died: March 23
Autobiographer
Biographer
Diarist
Novelist
Writer
Marie-Henri Beyle
Henri Beyle
Without
Pleasure
Even
Reading
Made
Suffering
Every
Story
Paralyses
Things
Found
Paralysis
People
Cannot
Reminded
Stories
Suffer
Certain
Horror

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