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.
STENDHALPolitics 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.
STENDHALIt is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
STENDHALPeople happy in love have an air of intensity.
STENDHALBeauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
STENDHALFriendship has its illusions no less than love.
STENDHALThere is no such thing as “natural law”: this expression is nothing but old nonsense… Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
STENDHALA novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
STENDHALWhat is really beautiful must always be true.
STENDHALIf you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
STENDHALThe sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
STENDHALAlmost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
STENDHALEvery great action is extreme when it is undertaken. Only after it has been accomplished does it seem possible to those creatures of more common stuff.
STENDHALGreat ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.
STENDHALA good book is an event in my life.
STENDHALI think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
STENDHALShe had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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