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
two lovers intimacy
When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.
matter fool would-be
A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.
events notion happens
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
pleasure proportion
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
life yawning waste
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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.
gun politics impossible
Politics 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.
love heart air
People happy in love have an air of intensity.
important should
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
eye blue sky
A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road.
selfish passion true-passion
Our true passions are selfish.
love heart matter
If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
book writing events
A good book is an event in my life.