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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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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 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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I call crystallization that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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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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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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I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.
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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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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
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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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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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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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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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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 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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It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.
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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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One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.
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