Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
STENDHALPower, after love, is the first source of happiness.
STENDHALA novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul.
STENDHALThe sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
STENDHALIndeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?
STENDHALMan is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
STENDHALI love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
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.
STENDHALThis is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
STENDHALIf you don’t love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
STENDHALIt is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.
STENDHALThe 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.
STENDHALAfter moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.
STENDHALI call “crystallization” that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.
STENDHALThe Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.
STENDHALWomen prefer emotions to reasoning.
STENDHALA man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.
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