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Stendhal

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Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.


— Stendhal


#any #eagerly #emotion #lookout #women

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.


— Stendhal


#appointment #happiness #never #should #unforeseen

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.


— Stendhal


#envy #far #far less #france #less

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.


— Stendhal


#illusions #less #love #than

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


— Stendhal


#excuse #exist #god #only

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.


— Stendhal


#gave #had #heard #i #i think

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.


— Stendhal


#better #future #had #hope #lost

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.


— Stendhal


#forty years #make #nobility #now #our

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.


— Stendhal


#hypocrisy #mathematics #vagueness

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.


— Stendhal


#close #feminine #found #had #himself






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Did you know about Stendhal?

He did have influence as a literary critic. In a word in Bologna “crystallization” has not yet begun. [citation needed]
In his works Stendhal "plagiarized" reprised appropriated excerpts from Giuseppe Carpani Théophile Frédéric Winckler Sismondi and others.

Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism as is evident in the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma 1839). [citation needed].

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