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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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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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A melancholy air can never be the right thing what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded. It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.
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...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
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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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When you want to court a woman, court her sister first
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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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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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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I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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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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The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
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