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Henri B. Stendhal
1783 - 1842
Nationality: French
Category: Writer
Subcategory: French Writer

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.

   

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.

   

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

   

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

   

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

   

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

   

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

   

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