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"The only excuse for God is that He does not exist."
StendhalComme on craint peu de choquer la vanité, on arrive fort vite en Itali — Stendhal
"Comme on craint peu de choquer la vanité, on arrive fort vite en Italie au ton de lintimité, et à dire des choses personnelles."
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Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism. A self-proclaimed egotist, the neologism for the same characteristic in his characters was "Beylism".
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