Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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About Stendhal
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. Stendhal proclaimed himself an egotist; the neologism for the same characteristic in his characters was "Beylism".
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by StendhalThe man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.
If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.