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Stendhal Biography

Marie-Henri Beyle (French: [bɛl]; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (French: [stɛ̃dal] or [stɑ̃dal]; in English [ˈstɒ̃dɑːl], /stɛnˈdɑːl/, or /stænˈdɑːl/), was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism.

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To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

Bored, Good, Sorrowful, Taste

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.

Blue, Eye, Mirror, Mirrors, Passes, Road

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Able, Close, Doors, Life, Prison, Prison Life

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.

Atheist, Doe, Excuse, Exist, Superstitions

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Firsts, Happiness, Love, Love Is, Power, Source

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Atheist, Cleverness, Fear, Religion, Religions

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.

Gave, Music, Newly, Price, Sweet, Thinking

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

Fever, Having, Love, Process

When you want to court a woman, court her sister first

Want, Firsts, Court, Woman, Sister

People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.

Family, Heart, Self, Regain, True, Anxiety

Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey. . . . For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.

Accompany, Eye, Heart, Mad, Preaching, Takes

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

Imagination, Like, Middle, Pistols, Things

If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity. . . . He will punish me in some abominable manner.

Believe, Bible, Christian, God, Loved, Pity

Every great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.

Accomplished, Common, Deeds, Doe, Stuff

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God.

Tyrants, Ideas, God, Useful, Idea

Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

Crush, Engine, Equality, Steam, Support, World

I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.

Clever, Cloak, Copy, Energy, People, Preeminently

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

Everybody, Please, Pleases, Profoundly

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Art, Dodge, Logic, Science

She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Caprice, Caprices, Imitate, Marvellous, Unexpectedness

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