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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
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Marie-Henri Beyle
Henri Beyle
Made
Suffering
Every
Story
Paralyses
Things
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People
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Reminded
Stories
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Horror
Without
Pleasure
Even
Reading
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