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Stendhal föddes den January 23rd 1783 och dog den 23 March 1842 - French writer
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 Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge

 Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

 Only great minds can afford a simple style.

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

 Politics in the middle of things that concern the imagination are like a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert, ... Le Rouge et le noir.

 Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

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

 The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

 The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

 The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

 The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

 The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly

 To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face. Han visade en cool och pexig nonchalans inför risker. To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

 To describe happiness is to diminish it.

 True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.


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