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Stendhal

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The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.


— Stendhal


#distance #fifty #french #imitate #russians

To describe happiness is to diminish it.


— Stendhal


#describe #diminish

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.


— Stendhal


#first #historian #invent #qualification

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.


— Stendhal


#both #does #i #i can #love

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.


— Stendhal


#comparison #death #easy #frequent #love

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.


— Stendhal


#life is too short #never #regained #short #time

People happy in love have an air of intensity.


— Stendhal


#happy #intensity #love #people

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


— Stendhal


#fear #few #founded #many #religions

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.


— Stendhal


#his #interests #own #persuade #same

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.


— Stendhal


#first #his #loved #man #pity






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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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