The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
STENDHALA novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
More Stendhal Quotes
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The difference breeds hatred.
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People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of an extreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.
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Our true passions are selfish.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
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A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
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Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar.
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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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The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.
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A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
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Every 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.
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Sometimes the impact of Mozart’s music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
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