Stendhal Quotes


Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.


Citations

Stendhal. The Life of Henry Brulard. Translated by Catherine Alison Phillips, Alfred A. Knopf, 1925.

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Stendhal
Stendhal
  • Born: January 23, 1783
  • Died: March 23, 1842
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Writer

Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK: /ˈstɒ̃dɑːl/, US: /stɛnˈdɑːl, stænˈ-/; French: [stɛ̃dal, stɑ̃dal]), was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839), he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism.