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.
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.
STENDHALI call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
STENDHALA very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
STENDHALI see but one rule: to be clear.
STENDHALThe only unhappiness is a life of boredom.
STENDHALI do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
STENDHALLove is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There are no age limits for love.
STENDHALThe worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
STENDHALThere are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.
STENDHALSometimes 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.
STENDHALI see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.
STENDHALIt is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.
STENDHALThe pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
STENDHALThe 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.
STENDHALIn matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives.
STENDHALNothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
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