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Stendhal
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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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Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.
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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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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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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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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It is not enough for a landscape to be interesting in itself. Eventually there must be a moral and historic interest.
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Love has always been the most important business in my life I should say the only one.
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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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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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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
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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 intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
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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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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 Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
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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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