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.
STENDHALI have a bad memory for facts.
More Stendhal Quotes
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On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
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Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Great 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.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious of sins. It is one step away from protestantism.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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I have a bad memory for facts.
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I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.
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A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
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The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.
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Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
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I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
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A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
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