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One can acquire everything in solitude — except character.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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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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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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A novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.
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What is really beautiful must always be true.
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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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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
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A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
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The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed — a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse — as a luxury befitting a young man.
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Wit lasts no more than two centuries.
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At La Scala it is customary to take no more than twenty minutes for those little visits one pays to boxes.
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A novel is a mirror that strolls along a highway. Now it reflects the blue of the skies, now the mud puddles underfoot.
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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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Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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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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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth!
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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 only excuse for God is that He does not exist.
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Born:
January 23, 1783
Died:
March 23, 1842
(aged 59)
Bio:
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer.
Known for:
The Red and the Black (1830)
The Charterhouse of Parma (1839)
Armance (1827)
Lucien Leuwen
Vanina Vanini (1829)
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