“The lover thinks oftener of reaching his mistress than the husband thinks of guarding his wife; the prisoner thinks more often of escape than the jailer thinks of locking the doors. Therefore, in spite of every obstacle, the lover and the prisoner are certain to succeed.”
― Stendhal, quote from The Charterhouse of Parma
“ On the other hand in America, in the Republic, one has to spend the whole weary day paying serious court to the shopkeepers in the street, and must become as stupid as they are; and there, one has no Opera.”
― Stendhal, quote from The Charterhouse of Parma
“Aşık sevgilisine ulaşmayı, kocasının karısını düşündüğünden daha sık düşünür; tutsak kaçıp kurtulmayı, gardiyan kapısını kapatmayı düşündüğünden daha sık düşünür, demek ki, engeller ne olursa olsun aşık ve tutsak başarılı olmalıdır.”
― Stendhal, quote from The Charterhouse of Parma
“This beautiful thought, of 'dying close by that which one loves', expressed in a hundred different ways, was followed by a sonnet in which it was found that the soul, separated, after atrocious torments, from the frail body in which it dwelt for twenty-three years, and impelled by that instinct for happiness natural to all that has once existed, would not reascend to heaven to mingle with angelic choirs as soon as it was set free, and in the event of the awful judgment according it forgiveness for its sins, but, happier after death than it had been in life, it would go a few steps from the prison where it had lamented for so long, to be reunited with all that it had loved in the world. And thus, the sonnet's last line went. I shall have found my paradise on earth.”
― Stendhal, quote from The Charterhouse of Parma
“Le bonheur le porta à une hauteur de pensées assez étrangère à son caractère; il considérait les événements de la vie lui, si jeune, comme si déjà il fût arrivé à sa dernière limite."Il faut en convenir, depuis mon arrivée à Parme, se dit-il enfin après plusieurs heures de rêveries délicieuses, je n'ai point eu de joie tranquille et parfaite, comme celle que je trouvais à Naples en galopant dans les chemins de Vomero ou en courant les rives de Misène. Tous”
― Stendhal, quote from The Charterhouse of Parma
“des méchants ou un orage avaient rompu l'une des principales branches du jeune arbre, qui pendait desséchée; Fabrice la coupa avec respect, à l'aide de son poignard, et tailla bien net la coupure, afin que l'eau ne pût pas s'introduire dans le tronc. Ensuite quoique le temps fût bien précieux pour lui, car lé jour allait paraître, il passa une bonne heure à bêcher la terre autour de l'arbre chéri. Toutes”
― Stendhal, quote from The Charterhouse of Parma
“Durerea pe care un om o poartă în suflet de pe urma unei iubiri nefericite, face ca orice lucru ce l-ar sili să-și adune gândurile și să-și cheltuiască energia, să i se pară o corvoadă îngrozitoare.”
― Stendhal, quote from The Charterhouse of Parma
“The presence of danger inspires a sensible man with genius, raising him, so to speak, above himself. In the case of the man of imagination, it inspires him with romances, which may indeed be bold, but which are frequently absurd.”
― Stendhal, quote from The Charterhouse of Parma
“C'est par une folie d'imagination que Napoléon s'est rendu au prudent John Bull, au lieu de chercher à gagner l'Amérique. John Bull, dans son comptoir, a bien ri de sa lettre où il cite Thémistocle. De tous temps les vils Sancho Pança l'emporteront à la longue sur les sublimes don Quichotte. Si”
― Stendhal, quote from The Charterhouse of Parma
“There's one convenience about absolute power, that it sanctifies everything in the eyes of the people.”
― Stendhal, quote from The Charterhouse of Parma
“Dans les cours despotiques, le premier intrigant adroit dispose de la vérité, comme la mode en dispose à Paris.”
― Stendhal, quote from The Charterhouse of Parma
“Fabrice, de son côté, croyait qu'un homme de son rang était au-dessus des lois; il ne calculait pas que dans les pays où les grands noms ne sont jamais punis, l'intrigue peut tout, même contre eux. Il”
― Stendhal, quote from The Charterhouse of Parma
Stendhal
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“As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from Inferno
“One more sign of how perfect Damen is—he keeps a pair of trunks in his car.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Evermore
“When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.”
― Victor Hugo, quote from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.”
― Diana Gabaldon, quote from Dragonfly in Amber
“ And I don't want to look at you every day, to see you naked,to watch you wandering around the annexe in your crazy dresses and not...not be able to do what I want with you. Oh, Clark,if you had any idea what I want to do to you right now.And I...i can't live with that knowledge. I can't. It's Not who I am. I can't be the kind of man who just...accepts.”
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