“Beauty is no more than the promise of happiness.”

— Stendhal · Happiness quote

Beauty is no more than the promise of happiness. — Stendhal quote card
Novelist · 1783 – 1842

Stendhal, the pen name of Marie-Henri Beyle, was a French novelist whose The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma pioneered psychological realism. Little appreciated in his lifetime, he predicted his fame would begin around 1880 — and was right.

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