Stendhal Quotes
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
Citations
Stendhal. On Love. Translated by Philip Sidney Woolf and Cecil N. Sidney Woolf, Brentano's, 1915.
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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.