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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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Stendhal
writer, autobiographer, diarist, biographer, novelist, diplomat, art historian
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1783 – 1842
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. A self-proclaimed egotist, the neologism for the same characteristic in his characters was "Beylism".
All Quotes by Stendhal
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Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
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To describe happiness is to diminish it.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of 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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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
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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.
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Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
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