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
imitate marvelous
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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In the choice of a lover a woman places more importance on how other women view him than on how she herself sees him.
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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.
tyrants ideas
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
eye blue sky
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.
love heart air
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
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God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
love heart matter
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
important should
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
love age limits
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.
events notion happens
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.