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• Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

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  Imagination, Pistols, Middle

  "Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)". Book by Stendhal (Volume II, Chapter XXII), November 1830.

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• The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

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  Race, Musical, Events

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• Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.

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  Crush, Equality, Support

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• Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive.

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  Logical Reasoning, Pieces, Offensive

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.191, Xist Publishing

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• I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

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  Real, Thinking, Said

  Stendhal (2012). “The Red and the Black”, p.224, Courier Corporation

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• The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.

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  Powerful, Grief, Men

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.154, Tyché

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• Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.

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  Lying, Men, Feet

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.367, Tyché

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• Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

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  Hero, Men, France

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.99, Tyché

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