Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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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