Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
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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