Stendhal
19th-century French writer
Date of Birth | : | 23 Jan, 1783 |
Date of Death | : | 23 Mar, 1842 |
Place of Birth | : | Grenoble, France |
Profession | : | Writer |
Nationality | : | France |
Stendhal pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle was a 19th-century French romantic writer who combined both romantic and realist influences in his work . His best-known novels are Le Rouge et le Noir , Lucien Leuwen and La Chartreuse de Parme , all three of which contain autobiographical elements. The main characters show characteristics of Stendhal himself. His novels are characterized by a rather dry, short style, partly due to the fact that Stendhal was opposed to any form of literary page filling. The realism in Stendhal's novels is therefore not expressed through extensive descriptions as in Honoré de Balzac , but rather in the fact that Stendhal based the basic fact of his story on a true fact (which he labeled "être vrai"). Most novels focus on the theme of love and more specifically the process of falling in love, which he has described as "crystallization".
Quotes
Total 20 Quotes
What is the use of a love that makes one yawn? One might as well take to religion.
The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.
I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.
I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow.
The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage.
There's one convenience about absolute power, that it sanctifies everything in the eyes of the people.
Old age is nothing but the absence of madness, the loss of illusion and passion.
Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student.
There is nothing so beautiful, lovable and moving as the English countryside.
Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice.