Quote of the day
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Stendhal
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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