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French writer (1783–1842)

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Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 – March 23, 1842), more widely known as Stendhal, the most famous of his many pen-names, was a 19th century French writer.

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Pen Names: Henri Stendhal • Stendalis • Louis Alexandre Bombet • Anastase de Serpière • Don Flegme • William Crocodile • Dominique

Alternative Names: Henri Beyle • Marie Henri Beyle • Marie-Henri Beyle

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La seule excuse de Dieu c’est qu’il n’existe pas

(Dio ha una sola scusa, quella di non esistere)

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Pierdut într-o visare nedeslușită și blânda, atât de străina firii lui, strângând încetișor mâna care îi plăcea pentru ca i se părea de o frumusețe desăvârșita, el asculta ca în vis freamătul frunzelor de tei foșnind la adierea nopții, si hămăitul câinilor de la moara de pe Doubs.

Le jeune paysan ne voyait rien entre lui et les actions les plus héroïques, que le manque d'occasion
(partie I, ch. XII)

Kad netko vrši zločine, treba barem da ih vrši s užitkom; to je jedino dobro na njima i samo se time mogu donekle opravdati.

Leave me with my life of the imagination. Your petty pestering, your details of real life, which all upset me to some degree, would drag me down from heaven. Each person dies as best he may; my wish is not to think of death except in my own way.

petty despotisms reduce to nothing the value of public opinion.

Asculta fermecată suspinele vântului în frunzișul des al teiului și ropotul rarelor picături care începuseră să cadă pe frunzele cel joase.

Il n’a pas une pensée qui ose s’écarter de la mode.

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

Une femme de quarante ans n'est plus quelque chose que pour les hommes qui l'ont aimée dans sa jeunesse!

Were I to buy this life of pleasure and this only chance at happiness with a few little dangers, where would be the harm? And wouldn’t it still be fortunate to find a weak excuse to give her proof of my love?

Quand je devrais acheter cette vie de délices et cette chance unique de bonheur par quelques petits dangers, où serait le mal? Et ne serait-ce pas encore un bonheur que de trouver ainsi une faible occasion de lui donner une preuve de mon amour?

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

De loin nous ne nous faisons pas d'idée de ce que c'est que l'autorité d'un despote qui connaît de vue tous ses sujets.

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