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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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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.
love age limits
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.
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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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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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I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.