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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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Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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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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The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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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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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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In our calling, we have to choose we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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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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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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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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There is no such thing as natural law: this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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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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Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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