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
imitate marvelous
She had caprices of a marvelous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
cure curse strangest
This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
character community solitude
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
atheist superstitions doe
God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
atheist fear religion
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
selfishness desert fool
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
math hypocrisy vagueness
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
spoiled pleasure describing
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
promise
Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.
vanity people littles
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
pleasure sample ifs
But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.
caprice unexpectedness marvellous
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
weapons feminine found
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
expression law suffering
There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold; in short, need.