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The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

~Stendhal

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

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Our true passions are selfish.

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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

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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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All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

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Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: January 23rd, 1783

Died: March 23rd, 1842

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