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We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity — it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

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Marie-Henri Beyle

Marie-Henri Beyle

Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism in his two novels Le Rouge et le Noir ( The Red and the Black , 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme ( The Charterhouse of Parma , 1839).

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