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
pleasure proportion
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
love age limits
Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.
events notion happens
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
atheist fear religion
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
love broken-heart passion
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
doors able prison-life
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
love dream stars
Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.
impact soul mind
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.
selfishness desert fool
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
music sweet thinking
I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
years style nobility
It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
selfish passion true-passion
Our true passions are selfish.
math hypocrisy vagueness
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
leadership peace motivation
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.