In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way. - Stendhal

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In our calling, we have to choose; we must make our fortune either in this world or in the next, there is no middle way.

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About Stendhal

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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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 a 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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