Stendhal
Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noirand La Chartreuse de Parme, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters' psychology and considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 January 1783
CountryFrance
thinking skills soldier
I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.
beautiful art memories
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.
art science dodge
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
book writing events
A good book is an event in my life.
running women two
When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily.
men years youth
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
concern imagination middle politics rouge
Politics in the middle of things that concern the imagination are like a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert, ... Le Rouge et le noir.
cure curse strangest
This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
choice herself importance lover places sees view woman women
In the choice of a lover a woman places more importance on how other women view him than on how she herself sees him.