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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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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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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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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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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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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.
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The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.
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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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Love is like fever it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.
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Women prefer emotions to reasoning.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
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