Stendhal
Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noirand La Chartreuse de Parme, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 January 1783
CountryFrance
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She had caprices of a marvelous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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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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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
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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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But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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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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Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
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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.