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Stendhal — Portrait after a picture by Olof Johan Södermark (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Stendhal

French writer

1783–1842

7 quotes, most often on Love and Happiness.

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
De L’Amour (On Love) (1822), Ch. 17, footnote
- Beauty
- Happiness
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.
De L’Amour (On Love) (1822), Ch. 1
- Love
Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.
De L’Amour (On Love) (1822), Fragments
- Sex
Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.
La Vie d’Henri Brulard (1890)
- Love
I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
De L’Amour (On Love) (1822), Ch. 1
- Love
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely, is, therefore, a great step towards happiness.
Journal entry (10 December 1801)
- Happiness
One can acquire everything in solitude — except character.
De L’Amour (On Love) (1822), Fragments
- Character

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