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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.


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#loved #men #old woman #only #something

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


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#dodge #logic #neither #nor #science

Only great minds can afford a simple style.


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#great #great minds #minds #only #simple

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


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#after #first #happiness #love #source

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.


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#age #boredom #cure #curse #even

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.


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#carried #main #mirror #novel #road

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.


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#court #eternal #men #paying #power

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.


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#been #business #i #important #important business

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.


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#often #pleasure #spoiled

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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#art #come #finds #genius #hell






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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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