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Famous Stendhal Quotes
Source: The Red and the Black: Easyread Edition
“There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.”
“A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.”
Source: Armance
“A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.”
“It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.”
Source: Love
“The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world”
Source: Memoirs of an egotist
Source: Love
Source: The Red and the Black
Source: The Red and the Black
“Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.”
“The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.”
“Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.”
Source: Stendhal on Love