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.
STENDHALI do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.
More Stendhal Quotes
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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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Every true passion thinks only of itself.
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Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?
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The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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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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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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I call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
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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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Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.
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A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
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Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
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Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
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