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• I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

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  Perfection, Mind, Events

  "De L'Amour (On Love)". Book by Stendhal (Chapter 1), 1822.

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• For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

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  Character, Men, Tears

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.50, Tyché

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• 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.

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  Music, Sweet, Thinking

  Stendhal (1952). “To the happy few: selected letters of Stendhal [pseud.]”

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• When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.

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  Two, Lovers, Intimacy

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

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  Distance, Years, Eyebrows

  Stendhal “The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century”, Curated Classics

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• The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

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  Passion, Race, Argument

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• To seem sorrowful is not in good taste: You're supposed to seem bored.

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  Bored, Taste, Sorrowful

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• Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.

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  Heart, Eye, Mad

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• Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

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  Men, Two, Devil

  Stendhal (2006). “The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition”, p.381, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

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  Years, Style, Nobility

  "La Chartreuse de Parme". Book by Stendhal, first edition, marginalia note, 1840.

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

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  Weapons, Feminine, Found

  Stendhal (2008). “The Red and the Black”, p.132, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.

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  Ambition, Power, Men

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• Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.

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  Careers, Painful, Divine

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• I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

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  Mad, Advice, Pay

  Stendhal (2006). “Red and the Black Volume Ii EasyRead Com”, p.298, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Love born in the brain is more spirited, doubtless, than true love, but it has only flashes of enthusiasm; it knows itself too well, it criticizes itself incessantly; so far from banishing thought, it is itself reared only upon a structure of thought.

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  Brain, Enthusiasm, Structure

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, Xist Publishing

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• Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.

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  Spy, Language, Human Nature

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black: World Classics”, p.204, World Classic

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• I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

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  Thinking, Skills, Soldier

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• War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

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  War, People, Soul

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• Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

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  Women, Average, Society

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• She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

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  Caprice, Unexpectedness, Marvellous

  Stendhal (2015). “Amarance”, p.73, Stendhal

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• The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers - is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

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  Ambition, Men, Years

  Stendhal (2011). “The Charterhouse of Parma”, p.150, Modern Library

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• It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.

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  Husband, Revenge, Blow

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.140, Tyché

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• Far less envy in America than in France.

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  America, Envy, France

  "On Love".

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• At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

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  Distance, Power, Government

  "La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma)". Book by Stendhal (Chapter 16), 1839.

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• Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.

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  Pride, Men, Flattery

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