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
struggle class paris
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
morning winter soul
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
war people soul
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.
god christian believe
If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments. I never loved Him! I could never even believe that anyone did love Him sincerely. He is devoid of pity.... He will punish me in some abominable manner.
feet miserable life-is
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
vanity people littles
Because one has little fear of shocking vanity in Italy, people adopt an intimate tone very quickly and discuss personal things.
crush equality support
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title. It will crush me if Ido not support it. The title attracts attention to myself.
thinking unusual-things self
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.
memories facts bad-memories
I have a bad memory for facts.
promise
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
caprice unexpectedness marvellous
She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
pride men birth
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.
weapons feminine found
Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
real thinking distinction
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.