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~ Stendhal Quotes ~
« on: October 06, 2015, 01:23:50 PM »
Stendhal  Quotes


A 19th-century French writer.
Marie-Henri Beyle (23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839).

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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2015, 01:24:40 PM »
The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
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« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2015, 01:25:07 PM »
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2015, 01:25:31 PM »
A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2015, 01:25:57 PM »
One can acquire everything in solitude but character.
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« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2015, 01:26:36 PM »
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
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« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2015, 01:27:09 PM »
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2015, 01:27:44 PM »
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2015, 01:28:20 PM »
If you want to be witty work on your character and say what you think on every occasion.
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« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2015, 01:28:57 PM »
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
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