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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.
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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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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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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 idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
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